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 Oct 2024

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10/19/2024

Average data

Episodes: 154

Frequency: every 252 days

Duration: 00:48:15

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Wavland (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 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	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
4	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
6	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
7	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
10	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
11	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
12	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	53
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
14	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
15	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
16	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
17	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
18	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
19	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
20	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
21	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
22	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
23	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
24	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
25	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
26	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
27	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
28	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
29	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
30	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
31	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
32	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
33	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
34	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
35	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
36	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
37	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
38	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
39	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
40	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
41	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
42	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
43	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
44	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
45	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
46	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
47	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
48	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
49	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
50	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
51	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
52	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
53	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
54	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
55	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
56	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
57	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
58	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
59	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
60	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
61	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	64
62	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	48
63	HOMELAND	HOMELAND	Society & Culture	10	PRX	79
64	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
65	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
66	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
67	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
68	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
69	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
70	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
71	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
72	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
73	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
74	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	542	Spreaker	60
75	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
76	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
77	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
78	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
79	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
80	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
81	Shadow of Hope	Pleasant Run Productions	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
82	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
83	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
84	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
85	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
86	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
87	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
88	Noche de Lluvia Podcast	Insólita Labs I Lourdes Gómez	Society & Culture	46	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	481	Omny Studio	68
90	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
91	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
92	Song of Philadelphia	Julien Suaudeau	Society & Culture	14	Libsyn	63
93	Dog In The Yard	Dog In The Yard	Society & Culture	153	Spreaker	49
94	The Insurgence: Sheriffs	Political Research Associates	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
95	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
96	Alabama Astronaut	Abe Partridge & Ferrill Gibbs	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	63
97	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
98	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
99	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
100	Recovering Debs	Mary Lambeth Moore	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	54

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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