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 Dec 2024

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12/31/2024

Average data

Episodes: 173

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:48:57

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. SpectreVision Radio (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. Wavland (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (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	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
8	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
9	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
10	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	315	Megaphone	42
12	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	445	Megaphone	32
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	58	PRX	74
17	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
18	Backed Up	Cincinnati Public Radio / 91.7 WVXU	Society & Culture	8	Unknown	59
19	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
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	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
24	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
25	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
28	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
32	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
33	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
34	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
35	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73
36	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
37	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
38	Generation Barney	Connecticut Public	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	74
39	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	458	RedCircle	59
40	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
41	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
42	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
43	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
44	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
45	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
46	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
47	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
48	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
49	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	272	Spreaker	69
51	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
52	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
53	Order 9066	APM Reports & The Smithsonian	Society & Culture	14	American Public Media	63
54	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
55	Split Screen: There Goes My Childhood	CBC	TV & Film	31	Triton Digital	58
56	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
57	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
59	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
60	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
61	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
62	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	710	Megaphone	53
63	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	356	Simplecast	78
65	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
66	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
67	Extraordinary Evidence \| ESP Is Real	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
68	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
69	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
70	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
71	Tampa Bay Developer	Garrett Greco	Society & Culture	138	Spotify for Podcasters	33
72	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
73	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
74	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
75	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
76	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
77	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	28
78	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
79	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
80	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	68
81	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
82	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	678	Acast	69
83	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
84	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
85	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	587	Spreaker	74
86	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
87	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
88	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	32
89	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
90	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
91	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
92	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
93	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
94	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
95	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
96	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
97	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
98	Intersections	A Human Atlas	Society & Culture	22	Libsyn	73
99	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
100	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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