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 oct. 2024

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10/22/2024

Average data

Episodes: 170

Frequency: every 250 days

Duration: 00:48:26

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. Wavland (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 (15 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
2	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
3	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
6	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
7	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
10	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
11	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	53
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
13	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
15	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
16	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
17	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
18	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
20	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
21	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
22	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
23	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
24	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
25	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
26	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
27	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
28	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
29	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
30	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
31	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
32	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
33	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
34	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
36	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
37	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
38	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
39	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
40	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
41	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
42	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
43	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
44	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
45	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
46	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
47	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
48	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	10	Substack	59
49	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
50	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
51	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
52	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
53	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
54	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
55	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	48
56	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
57	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
58	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
59	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
60	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
61	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
62	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	64
63	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
64	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
65	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	636	Acast	69
66	Intersections	A Human Atlas	Society & Culture	22	Libsyn	73
67	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
68	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
69	HOMELAND	HOMELAND	Society & Culture	10	PRX	79
70	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
71	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
72	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
73	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
74	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
75	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
76	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
77	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
78	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	266	Megaphone	32
79	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
80	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
81	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
82	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	542	Spreaker	60
83	The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	10	The Washington Post	63
84	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
85	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
86	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
87	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
88	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
89	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
90	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	555	Spreaker	74
91	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	48
92	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
93	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
94	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
95	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
96	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
97	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
98	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	523	Spreaker	43
99	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	110	Megaphone	68
100	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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