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 26 Dec 2024

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12/26/2024

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 250 days

Duration: 00:47:35

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. SpectreVision Radio (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. PRX (7 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	1005	Simplecast	38
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
8	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
9	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
10	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
12	Backed Up	Cincinnati Public Radio / 91.7 WVXU	Society & Culture	8	Unknown	59
13	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
14	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
15	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
16	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
17	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
18	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
20	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
21	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
23	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
24	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
27	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
28	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73
29	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
30	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
31	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
32	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
33	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
34	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
35	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
36	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
37	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
39	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
40	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
41	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
42	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
43	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
44	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
45	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
46	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
47	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
48	Extraordinary Evidence \| ESP Is Real	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
50	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
51	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
52	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
53	Generation Barney	Connecticut Public	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	74
54	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
55	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
56	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
57	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
58	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
59	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
60	Escape From Zaqistan	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	59
61	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
62	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
63	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
64	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
65	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	53
66	Order 9066	APM Reports & The Smithsonian	Society & Culture	14	American Public Media	63
67	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
68	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
69	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
70	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
71	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
72	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
73	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
74	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
75	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
76	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
77	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
78	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
79	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
80	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
81	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
82	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
83	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	28
84	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
85	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Society & Culture	27	PRX	59
86	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
87	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
88	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
89	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
90	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
91	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
92	Remember Me	Remember Me Podcast	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	73
93	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
94	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
96	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
97	Blind Landing	Ari Saperstein	Society & Culture	29	Megaphone	79
98	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
99	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
100	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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