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 18 Oct 2024

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10/18/2024

Average data

Episodes: 152

Frequency: every 253 days

Duration: 00:48:07

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. PRX (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
2	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
3	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
4	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
5	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
9	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
11	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	53
12	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
13	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
15	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
16	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
17	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
18	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
19	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
20	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
21	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
23	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
24	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
25	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
26	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
29	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
30	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
31	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
32	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
33	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
34	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
35	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
37	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
38	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
39	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
40	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
41	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
42	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
43	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
44	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
45	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
46	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
47	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
48	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
49	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
50	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
51	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
52	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
53	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
54	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
55	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	64
58	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
59	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
60	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
61	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	48
62	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
63	HOMELAND	HOMELAND	Society & Culture	10	PRX	79
64	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
65	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
66	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
67	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
68	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
69	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
70	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
71	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
72	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
73	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
74	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
75	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
76	Noche de Lluvia Podcast	Insólita Labs I Lourdes Gómez	Society & Culture	46	Spotify for Podcasters	28
77	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
78	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
79	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
80	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
81	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
82	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
83	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
84	Alabama Astronaut	Abe Partridge & Ferrill Gibbs	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	63
85	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
86	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
87	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
88	Recovering Debs	Mary Lambeth Moore	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	54
89	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
90	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
91	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
92	Shadow of Hope	Pleasant Run Productions	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
93	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
94	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
95	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	542	Spreaker	60
96	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
97	The Insurgence: Sheriffs	Political Research Associates	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
98	Dog In The Yard	Dog In The Yard	Society & Culture	153	Spreaker	49
99	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
100	Damages	Critical Frequency	Society & Culture	71	Megaphone	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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