Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 17 Sep 2024

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09/17/2024

Average data

Episodes: 155

Frequency: every 251 days

Duration: 00:47:11

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. Wondery (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
2	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
5	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
6	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
7	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
9	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
10	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
11	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
12	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
13	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
14	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
15	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
16	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
17	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
18	What Makes Us Stronger	Women For Women International	Society & Culture	15	Omny Studio	79
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
20	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
21	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
22	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
24	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
25	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
26	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
27	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
29	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
30	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
31	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
32	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
33	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
34	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
35	HUMO: Murder and Silence in El Salvador	Sonoro	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	59
36	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
37	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
39	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
42	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
43	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	456	RedCircle	59
44	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
45	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
46	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
47	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
48	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
49	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	59
50	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
51	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
52	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
53	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
54	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
55	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
56	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
57	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
58	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
59	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
60	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
61	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
62	Shadow of Hope	Pleasant Run Productions	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
63	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
64	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
65	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
66	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
67	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	674	Acast	69
68	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
69	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
70	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
71	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68
72	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
73	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
74	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
75	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
76	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
77	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
78	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
79	Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People	Guy Kawasaki	Society & Culture	269	Simplecast	63
80	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
81	10 Mujeres	Wondery \| Dudas Media	Society & Culture	11	ART19	89
83	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
84	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
85	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
86	The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	10	The Washington Post	63
87	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
88	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
89	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
90	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
91	Canary: The Washington Post Investigates	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	12	The Washington Post	59
92	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
93	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
94	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
95	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
96	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
97	Boom Town: A Uranium Story	Alec Cowan	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	N/A
98	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
99	Damages	Critical Frequency	Society & Culture	71	Megaphone	63
100	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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