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 Nov 2024

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11/22/2024

Average data

Episodes: 183

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:48:20

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (7 shows)

2. pepe&chema (2 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. Wavland (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Omny Studio (19 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. Spreaker (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
2	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
5	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
10	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
11	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
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	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
15	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
16	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
17	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
21	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
23	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
24	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
25	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
27	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
28	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
29	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
31	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
33	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	174	Unknown	83
34	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
35	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	429	RedCircle	59
36	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
37	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
40	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
41	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
42	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
43	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
44	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
45	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
46	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
47	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
48	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
49	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	59
50	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
51	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
52	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
53	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
54	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
55	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
56	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
57	Generation Barney	Connecticut Public	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	74
58	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
59	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
60	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
61	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
62	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
63	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
64	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
65	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
66	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
67	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
68	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
69	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
70	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
73	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
74	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
75	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
76	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	566	Spreaker	74
77	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
78	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
79	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
80	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
81	Escape From Zaqistan	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	59
82	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
83	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
84	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
85	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
86	Indigenous Vision	Indigenous Vision	Society & Culture	140	Spotify for Podcasters	43
87	24 Hours in Austin	KUT & KUTX Studios, Matt Largey	Society & Culture	5	Blubrry Podcasting	53
88	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	488	Omny Studio	68
89	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	647	Acast	69
90	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
91	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	550	Spreaker	60
92	True Stories with Seth Andrews	Seth Andrews	Society & Culture	448	Spreaker	53
93	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
94	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
95	Extraordinary Evidence \| ESP Is Real	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
96	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
97	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
98	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
99	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
100	Crumbs	My Cultura and Sonoro	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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