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 Dec 2024

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12/20/2024

Average data

Episodes: 164

Frequency: every 259 days

Duration: 00:48:23

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Wavland (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Simplecast (11 shows)

4. Acast (11 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
3	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
6	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
9	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
10	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
12	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
13	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
14	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
15	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
16	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
17	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
18	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
19	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
20	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
21	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
24	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
25	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
27	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
28	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
29	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
30	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
31	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
33	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
36	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
37	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
38	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
39	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
40	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
41	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
42	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Society & Culture	27	PRX	59
43	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
44	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
45	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	28
48	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
49	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
50	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
51	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
52	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
53	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
54	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
55	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
56	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
57	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
58	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
59	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
60	Escape From Zaqistan	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	59
61	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	53
62	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
63	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
64	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
65	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
66	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
67	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
68	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
69	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
70	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
71	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
72	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
73	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
74	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
75	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
77	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
78	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
79	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
80	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
81	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
82	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
84	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
85	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
86	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
87	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
88	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
89	Little Devils	TRZ Media	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	53
90	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
91	Generation Barney	Connecticut Public	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	74
92	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
93	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
94	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
95	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
97	Happiest Retirees	Ryan Doolittle	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	64
98	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
99	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
100	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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