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 31 Jan 2025

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01/31/2025

Average data

Episodes: 177

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:47:46

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. The New York Times (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Omny Studio (13 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (12 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
3	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
4	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
9	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
10	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
11	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
12	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
13	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
14	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	438	Acast	53
15	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
16	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
17	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
18	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
19	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
20	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
22	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
24	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	447	RedCircle	59
25	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
26	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
30	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
31	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
32	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
33	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	209	Megaphone	32
34	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
35	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
36	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
37	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
38	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
39	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
40	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
41	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
42	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
43	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
44	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
45	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
46	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
48	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
49	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
50	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
51	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
52	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
53	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
54	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
55	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
56	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
57	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
58	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
59	Little Devils	TRZ Media	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	53
60	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
61	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
62	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
63	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
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 Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
67	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
68	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
69	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
70	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
71	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
72	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
75	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
76	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	274	Megaphone	32
77	Alabama Astronaut	Abe Partridge & Ferrill Gibbs	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	63
78	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
79	BUZZKILL, presented by REAP/SOW	FERN	Society & Culture	29	PRX	73
80	The Blonde Fixer	Michelle Boxx	Society & Culture	3	Buzzsprout	79
81	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
82	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
83	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
84	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	58	BBC	58
85	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
86	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
87	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
88	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
89	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
90	The Other Latif	WNYC Studios	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
91	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
92	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
93	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
94	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	62	Libsyn	42
95	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
96	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
97	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	298	Audioboom	58
98	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	573	Spreaker	74
99	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
100	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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