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 29 Oct 2024

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10/29/2024

Average data

Episodes: 180

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:47:41

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. Wavland (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. PRX (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
2	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
3	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	412	Megaphone	63
5	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
8	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	312	Megaphone	42
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
11	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
12	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
13	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
15	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	441	Acast	53
16	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
18	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
20	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
21	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
22	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
23	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
24	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
25	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
26	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
27	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1204	Acast	59
28	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
29	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
31	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
32	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
33	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
34	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
35	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	451	RedCircle	59
36	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
38	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
39	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
40	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
41	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
42	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
43	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
44	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
45	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
46	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
48	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
49	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
50	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
51	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
52	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
53	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
54	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
55	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	179	Unknown	83
56	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
57	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
58	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
59	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
60	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
61	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
62	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	668	Acast	69
63	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
64	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
65	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
66	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
67	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
68	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	59
70	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
71	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
72	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	32
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	276	Megaphone	32
75	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
76	The Chilling Podcast	Little Fang Media	Society & Culture	29	Spreaker	43
77	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
78	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
79	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
80	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
81	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
82	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
83	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	561	Spreaker	60
84	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
85	The Courage Contagion	Joelle Benson	Society & Culture	12	Unknown	63
86	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
87	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
88	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
89	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
90	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
92	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
93	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	450	Acast	74
94	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
95	The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	10	The Washington Post	63
96	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	529	Spreaker	43
97	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	32	Spotify for Podcasters	48
98	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
99	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	576	Spreaker	74
100	Generation Barney	Connecticut Public	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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