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 22 Jan 2025

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01/22/2025

Average data

Episodes: 187

Frequency: every 241 days

Duration: 00:48:26

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. The New York Times (2 shows)

5. APM Reports (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Acast (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (12 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
5	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
6	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
8	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
10	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
12	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
13	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
14	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
15	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
16	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
18	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
19	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
20	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
22	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
23	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
24	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	457	RedCircle	59
25	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
26	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
28	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
33	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
34	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
35	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
36	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
37	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
38	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
39	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
40	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
42	Order 9066	APM Reports & The Smithsonian	Society & Culture	14	American Public Media	63
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
44	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
45	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
46	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
47	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
48	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
49	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
50	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
51	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
52	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
53	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
54	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
55	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
56	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
57	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
58	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
59	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
60	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
61	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
62	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
63	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
64	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
65	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
66	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
67	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
68	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
69	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
70	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
71	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
72	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
73	King's Last March	APM Reports	Society & Culture	9	American Public Media	63
74	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
75	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
76	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	92	Megaphone	58
77	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
78	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
79	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
80	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
81	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
82	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
83	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
84	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
85	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
86	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
87	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
88	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
89	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
90	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
91	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
92	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	582	Spreaker	74
93	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
94	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
95	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
96	A Breach Repairer's Song	A Breach Repairer's Song	Society & Culture	4	PRX	64
97	Blind Landing	Ari Saperstein	Society & Culture	29	Megaphone	79
98	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
99	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	Acast	69
100	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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