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 28 Jan 2025

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01/28/2025

Average data

Episodes: 186

Frequency: every 243 days

Duration: 00:48:44

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. Wavland (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. The New York Times (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (13 shows)

3. Simplecast (13 shows)

4. Acast (13 shows)

5. BBC (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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
3	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
5	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
10	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
11	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
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	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	442	Acast	53
15	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
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	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
20	Little Devils	TRZ Media	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	53
21	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
22	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
23	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
24	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
26	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
27	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
28	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
30	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	455	RedCircle	59
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
32	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
33	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
34	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
35	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
37	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
38	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
39	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
40	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
41	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
42	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
43	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
44	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
45	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
46	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
47	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
48	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
49	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
50	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
52	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
53	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
54	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
55	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
56	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
57	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
59	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
60	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
61	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
62	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
63	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
64	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
65	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
66	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
67	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
68	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
69	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
70	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
71	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
72	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
73	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	277	Megaphone	32
74	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
75	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
76	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
77	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
78	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
79	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
80	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
81	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
82	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
83	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
84	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
85	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
86	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
87	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
88	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
89	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
90	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
91	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
92	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
93	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
94	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
95	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
96	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	580	Spreaker	74
97	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
98	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
99	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
100	The Blonde Fixer	Michelle Boxx	Society & Culture	3	Buzzsprout	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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