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 20 Nov 2024

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11/20/2024

Average data

Episodes: 181

Frequency: every 248 days

Duration: 00:48:34

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (7 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. Wavland (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Omny Studio (17 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. PRX (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
3	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
4	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
5	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
6	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
8	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
12	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
13	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
14	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
15	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
17	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
20	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
21	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
22	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
24	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
25	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
26	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
27	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
28	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
32	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	174	Unknown	83
33	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
34	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
35	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
36	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	429	RedCircle	59
37	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
38	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
40	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
41	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
42	Generation Barney	Connecticut Public	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	74
43	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
44	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
45	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
46	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
47	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
48	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
49	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
50	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
51	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
52	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
53	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
54	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
55	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
56	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
57	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
58	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
59	24 Hours in Austin	KUT & KUTX Studios, Matt Largey	Society & Culture	5	Blubrry Podcasting	53
60	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	59
61	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
62	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
63	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
64	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
65	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
66	Escape From Zaqistan	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	59
67	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
68	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
70	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
71	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
72	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
73	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
74	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
75	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
76	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
77	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
78	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
79	Indigenous Vision	Indigenous Vision	Society & Culture	140	Spotify for Podcasters	43
80	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	566	Spreaker	74
81	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
82	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	647	Acast	69
83	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
84	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
85	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
86	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
87	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
88	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
89	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
90	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	488	Omny Studio	68
91	Noche de Lluvia Podcast	Insólita Labs I Lourdes Gómez	Society & Culture	46	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
93	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	550	Spreaker	60
94	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
95	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
96	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
97	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
98	The Dennis Postema Show	Dennis M. Postema	Society & Culture	26	RedCircle	63
99	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
100	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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