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 21 Oct 2024

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10/21/2024

Average data

Episodes: 155

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:48:01

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 (24 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. Spreaker (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
2	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	947	Simplecast	38
4	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	415	Megaphone	63
6	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	316	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	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	29	American Public Media	62
11	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
13	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	446	Megaphone	32
15	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
16	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	220	Megaphone	38
18	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
19	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
20	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
21	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	444	Acast	53
23	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
24	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	48
25	Split Screen: There Goes My Childhood	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	58
26	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
27	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
28	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
29	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
30	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
31	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
32	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
33	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
34	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	168	Acast	69
36	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1210	Acast	59
37	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	464	RedCircle	59
38	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
39	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	374	Omny Studio	73
40	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	59	PRX	74
41	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
42	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
43	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
44	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
45	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	24	Buzzsprout	42
48	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
49	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
50	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
51	Intersections	A Human Atlas	Society & Culture	22	Libsyn	73
52	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
53	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	273	Spreaker	69
54	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
55	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	107	Acast	79
56	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
57	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
58	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	48
59	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
60	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
61	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
62	HOMELAND	HOMELAND	Society & Culture	10	PRX	79
63	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	679	Acast	69
64	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
65	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
66	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
67	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	53
68	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	59
69	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	454	Acast	74
70	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	711	Megaphone	53
71	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
72	The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	10	The Washington Post	63
73	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	68
74	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
75	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
76	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	286	Megaphone	43
77	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
78	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
79	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	531	Spreaker	43
80	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
81	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	348	Acast	64
82	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	32	Spotify for Podcasters	48
83	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
84	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	32
85	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	356	Simplecast	78
86	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
87	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
88	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
89	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	173	Omny Studio	89
90	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	569	Spreaker	60
91	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	32
92	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	589	Spreaker	74
93	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
94	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
95	The Donor Podcast: A DNA Horror Story	Costard & Touchstone Productions, Inc.	Society & Culture	8	WideOrbit	37
96	Shadow of Hope	Pleasant Run Productions	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
97	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	31	Acast	83
98	Noche de Lluvia Podcast	Insólita Labs I Lourdes Gómez	Society & Culture	46	Spotify for Podcasters	28
99	The Insurgence: Sheriffs	Political Research Associates	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
100	Dog In The Yard	Dog In The Yard	Society & Culture	153	Spreaker	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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