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 23 Dec 2024

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12/23/2024

Average data

Episodes: 175

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:48:18

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. Wavland (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Acast (13 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 Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
7	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
8	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
10	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
11	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
12	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
13	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
14	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
15	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
16	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
17	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
18	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
21	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
24	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
26	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
27	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
28	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
29	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
32	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
33	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
34	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
35	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
36	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
37	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
39	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
40	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
41	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	457	RedCircle	59
42	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
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	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
48	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
49	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
50	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
51	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
52	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
53	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
54	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
55	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
56	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
57	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
58	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
59	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
60	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Society & Culture	27	PRX	59
61	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
62	Escape From Zaqistan	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	59
63	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
64	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
65	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
66	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
67	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	28
68	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
69	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
72	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
73	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
74	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
75	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
76	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
77	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	Acast	69
78	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
79	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
80	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
81	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
82	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
83	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
85	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
86	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
87	24 Hours in Austin	KUT & KUTX Studios, Matt Largey	Society & Culture	5	Blubrry Podcasting	53
88	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
89	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
90	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	582	Spreaker	74
91	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
92	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
93	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
94	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
95	Blind Landing	Ari Saperstein	Society & Culture	29	Megaphone	79
96	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
97	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
98	True Stories with Seth Andrews	Seth Andrews	Society & Culture	448	Spreaker	53
99	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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