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 Dec 2024

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12/22/2024

Average data

Episodes: 172

Frequency: every 249 days

Duration: 00:47:34

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (7 shows)

2. pepe&chema (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. Wavland (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	4	ART19	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
7	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
9	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
10	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
11	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
12	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
13	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
14	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
15	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
16	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
17	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
18	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
21	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
22	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
24	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
26	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
27	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
28	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
29	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
31	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
32	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
33	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
34	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
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	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
39	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	429	RedCircle	59
40	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
41	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
42	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
43	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
44	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
45	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
46	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
47	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
48	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
49	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
50	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Society & Culture	27	PRX	59
51	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
52	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
53	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
54	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
55	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
56	Escape From Zaqistan	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	59
57	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
58	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
59	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
60	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
61	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	28
62	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
63	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	174	Unknown	83
64	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
65	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
66	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
67	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
68	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
69	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
70	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
73	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
74	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
75	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
76	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	647	Acast	69
77	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
78	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
79	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
80	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	566	Spreaker	74
81	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
82	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
83	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
84	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
85	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
86	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
88	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
89	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
90	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
91	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
92	24 Hours in Austin	KUT & KUTX Studios, Matt Largey	Society & Culture	5	Blubrry Podcasting	53
93	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
94	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
95	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
96	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
97	True Stories with Seth Andrews	Seth Andrews	Society & Culture	448	Spreaker	53
98	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	196	ART19	37
99	Little Devils	TRZ Media	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	53
100	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	488	Omny Studio	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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