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 Oct 2024

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10/17/2024

Average data

Episodes: 153

Frequency: every 249 days

Duration: 00:48:06

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Simplecast (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
2	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	947	Simplecast	38
4	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
5	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	415	Megaphone	63
7	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	316	Megaphone	42
9	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
10	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
11	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
12	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	220	Megaphone	38
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	446	Megaphone	32
14	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	29	American Public Media	62
15	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
16	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
17	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
18	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	48
19	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
20	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	445	Acast	53
23	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
24	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
25	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
26	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	464	RedCircle	59
27	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
28	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	374	Omny Studio	73
29	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
30	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
31	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
32	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
33	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
34	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
35	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
36	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
37	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
38	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1210	Acast	59
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	168	Acast	69
40	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	59	PRX	74
41	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
42	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
43	Split Screen: There Goes My Childhood	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	58
44	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
45	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
46	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
47	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
48	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	68
49	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	282	Buzzsprout	42
50	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
51	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
52	HOMELAND	HOMELAND	Society & Culture	10	PRX	79
53	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	273	Spreaker	69
54	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
55	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	24	Buzzsprout	42
58	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
59	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	107	Acast	79
60	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	48
61	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
62	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	32	Spotify for Podcasters	48
63	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
64	Noche de Lluvia Podcast	Insólita Labs I Lourdes Gómez	Society & Culture	46	Spotify for Podcasters	28
65	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	59
66	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
67	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
68	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	680	Acast	69
69	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	53
70	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	32
71	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	286	Megaphone	43
72	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
73	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	589	Spreaker	74
74	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
75	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
76	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	32
77	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	531	Spreaker	43
78	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
79	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	357	Simplecast	78
80	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	348	Acast	64
81	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
82	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
83	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	68
84	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
85	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
86	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	712	Megaphone	53
87	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
88	Shadow of Hope	Pleasant Run Productions	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
89	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	569	Spreaker	60
90	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
91	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
92	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	454	Acast	74
93	Alabama Astronaut	Abe Partridge & Ferrill Gibbs	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	63
94	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	64	Libsyn	42
95	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
96	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
97	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
98	The Insurgence: Sheriffs	Political Research Associates	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
99	HUMO: Murder and Silence in El Salvador	Sonoro	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	59
100	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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