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 30 Jan 2025

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01/30/2025

Average data

Episodes: 172

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:47:41

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (13 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. BBC (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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
3	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
4	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
6	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
9	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
10	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
11	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
12	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
13	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	439	Acast	53
14	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
15	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
16	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
17	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
18	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
19	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
20	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
24	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	450	RedCircle	59
25	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
27	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	32
28	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
29	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
30	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
31	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
34	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
35	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
36	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
37	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
38	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
39	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
40	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
41	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
43	Little Devils	TRZ Media	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	53
44	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
45	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	120	BBC	38
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
49	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
50	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
51	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
52	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
53	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
54	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
55	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
56	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
57	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
58	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
59	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
60	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
61	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
62	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
63	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
64	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
65	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
66	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
69	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
70	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
71	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
72	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	275	Megaphone	32
73	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
74	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
75	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
76	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
77	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
78	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
79	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
80	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
81	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
82	The Blonde Fixer	Michelle Boxx	Society & Culture	3	Buzzsprout	79
83	BUZZKILL, presented by REAP/SOW	FERN	Society & Culture	29	PRX	73
84	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	58	BBC	58
85	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
86	Alabama Astronaut	Abe Partridge & Ferrill Gibbs	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	63
87	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
88	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	528	Spreaker	43
89	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
90	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
91	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
92	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
93	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
94	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	179	Unknown	83
95	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
96	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
97	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
98	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
99	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
100	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	298	Audioboom	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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