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 19 Sep 2024

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09/19/2024

Average data

Episodes: 152

Frequency: every 258 days

Duration: 00:48:39

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (15 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. Buzzsprout (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
2	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
5	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
6	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
9	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
10	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
11	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	53
12	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
13	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
14	What Makes Us Stronger	Women For Women International	Society & Culture	15	Omny Studio	79
15	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
16	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
17	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
18	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
20	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
21	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
22	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
23	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
24	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
25	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
26	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
27	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
28	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
29	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
30	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
31	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
32	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
33	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
34	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
35	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
36	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
38	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
39	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
40	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
41	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
42	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
43	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
44	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
48	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
49	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
50	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
51	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
52	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	64
53	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
54	HUMO: Murder and Silence in El Salvador	Sonoro	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	59
55	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
56	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
57	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
58	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
59	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
60	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
61	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
62	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
63	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
64	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
65	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
66	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
67	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
68	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
69	The Outlier Podcast	Lauren Conlin, PopCrime.TV	Society & Culture	111	Acast	69
70	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
71	Shadow of Hope	Pleasant Run Productions	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
72	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
73	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
74	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
75	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
76	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
77	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
78	When We Were Wizards	Traction Media	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
79	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
80	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
81	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
83	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
84	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
85	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
86	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
87	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
88	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
89	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
90	Recovering Debs	Mary Lambeth Moore	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	54
91	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
92	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
93	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	10	Substack	59
94	Walking on Eggshells with an Emotional Vampire	Eggshell Vampire Productions	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	83
95	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
96	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	481	Omny Studio	68
97	The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	10	The Washington Post	63
98	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
99	Kate and Kathleen - A podcast about humans and horses	Kathleen Beckham and KATE SANDEL	Society & Culture	29	Libsyn	58
100	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	542	Spreaker	60

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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