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 Dec 2024

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12/21/2024

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:48:01

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Wavland (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Omny Studio (15 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
3	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
5	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	410	Megaphone	63
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
8	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
10	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
11	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
12	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
13	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
14	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
15	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
16	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	24	Omny Studio	73
17	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	439	Megaphone	32
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	216	Megaphone	38
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1200	Acast	59
21	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
22	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	209	Megaphone	32
23	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	436	Acast	53
24	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
27	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
28	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
32	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	443	RedCircle	59
33	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
34	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
35	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
36	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
37	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
38	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
39	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
40	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
41	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
42	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
43	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
44	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
45	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
46	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Society & Culture	27	PRX	59
47	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
48	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
49	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
50	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
51	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
52	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
53	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
54	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
56	Escape From Zaqistan	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	59
57	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
59	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
60	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
61	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53
62	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
63	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
65	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
66	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
67	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
68	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
69	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
70	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
71	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	273	Megaphone	32
72	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
73	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
74	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	659	Acast	69
75	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	528	Spreaker	43
76	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
77	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
78	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
79	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
81	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
82	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
83	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
84	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
85	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	351	Simplecast	78
86	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
87	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	572	Spreaker	74
88	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
89	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
91	Little Devils	TRZ Media	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	53
92	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
93	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
94	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
95	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
96	True Stories with Seth Andrews	Seth Andrews	Society & Culture	448	Spreaker	53
97	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
98	Generation Barney	Connecticut Public	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	74
99	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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