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 27 Dec 2024

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12/27/2024

Average data

Episodes: 171

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:48:10

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. Wavland (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Omny Studio (13 shows)

3. Acast (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (12 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
4	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
7	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
8	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
9	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
10	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
11	Backed Up	Cincinnati Public Radio / 91.7 WVXU	Society & Culture	8	Unknown	59
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
13	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
14	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
15	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
16	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
18	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
19	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
20	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
21	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
22	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
23	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
25	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
26	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
27	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
28	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
30	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
31	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
33	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
34	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
35	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	456	RedCircle	59
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
39	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
40	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
41	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
43	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
44	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
45	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
46	Generation Barney	Connecticut Public	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	74
47	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
48	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
49	Extraordinary Evidence \| ESP Is Real	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
50	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
51	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
52	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
53	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
54	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
55	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
56	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
57	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
58	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
59	Order 9066	APM Reports & The Smithsonian	Society & Culture	14	American Public Media	63
60	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
61	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
62	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
63	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
64	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
65	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
66	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
67	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
68	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
69	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
70	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
71	Escape From Zaqistan	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	59
72	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
73	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	580	Spreaker	74
74	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
75	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
76	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
77	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
78	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	28
79	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
80	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
81	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
83	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
84	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
85	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
86	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
87	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	674	Acast	69
88	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
89	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
90	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
91	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
92	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
93	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
94	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
95	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
96	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
98	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
99	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
100	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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