Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Society & Culture

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA - Category Society & Culture

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 07 Oct 2026

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10/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 381

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:59:02

Top 5 authors

1. NPR (4 shows)

2. Barstool Sports (3 shows)

3. PodcastOne (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. Audible Original (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (28 shows)

2. Simplecast (18 shows)

3. ART19 (17 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 shows)

5. Libsyn (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Author	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
2	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	416	Megaphone	53
3	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	445	Acast	53
4	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
5	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
6	Reaching Out Details temporarily unavailable	Unknown author	Society & Culture	N/A	N/A	N/A
7	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
8	Happy Hour with Ina Garten	Vox Media	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	58
9	Before & After with Lester Holt	NBC News	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	42
10	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	29	American Public Media	62
11	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	119	ART19	68
12	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	81	Buzzsprout	38
13	The ManFlu \| Exploring Gender Dynamics, Partnerships & Raising Boys Who Care	Lucy McAfee	Society & Culture	16	Acast	79
14	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	61	ART19	63
15	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1169	Megaphone	58
16	the Girls	FOX News Podcasts	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	58
17	The Dr. John Delony Show	Ramsey Network	Society & Culture	985	Megaphone	69
18	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1202	Omny Studio	59
19	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	947	Simplecast	38
20	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
21	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
22	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
23	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	316	Megaphone	42
24	Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda	Alan Alda	Society & Culture	438	Simplecast	58
25	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe	Society & Culture	511	Libsyn	52
26	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	447	Megaphone	63
27	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	160	Megaphone	53
28	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	864	Megaphone	69
29	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
30	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	219	Omny Studio	69
31	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	412	Megaphone	48
32	The Permanent Questions With David Brooks	The Atlantic	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	68
33	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	134	Omny Studio	63
34	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	359	ART19	68
35	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	48
36	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1235	Libsyn	63
37	Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast	TMG Studios	Society & Culture	239	ART19	41
38	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	130	Megaphone	38
39	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	137	WideOrbit	48
40	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	91	Simplecast	47
41	Notes from the Edge	Gamut Podcast Network	Society & Culture	154	ART19	58
42	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	158	ART19	52
43	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	139	Simplecast	58
44	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
45	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	117	Megaphone	48
46	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	446	Megaphone	32
47	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	162	Simplecast	73
48	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2858	Acast	43
49	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	70	Megaphone	42
50	Scamfluencers	Audible Original	Society & Culture	152	ART19	73
51	Chrisley Confessions 2.0	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	71	ART19	63
52	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	693	Megaphone	42
53	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	213	Simplecast	62
54	So Supernatural	Audiochuck \| Crime House	Society & Culture	216	Simplecast	32
55	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1759	Libsyn	53
56	Hey Jonas!	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	56	Omny Studio	48
57	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	38	Unknown	79
58	Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC	Andy Stumpf	Society & Culture	817	Libsyn	32
59	Against The Odds	Audible Original	Society & Culture	297	ART19	83
60	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	282	Omny Studio	83
61	Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways	NerdWallet Travel	Society & Culture	93	Megaphone	63
62	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	183	ART19	48
63	Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	569	ART19	48
64	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
65	Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay	The Ringer	Society & Culture	609	Megaphone	42
66	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	64	Substack	43
67	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
68	Code Switch	NPR	Society & Culture	663	Simplecast	53
69	Open Book with Jenna	TODAY, Jenna Bush Hager	Society & Culture	123	Simplecast	58
70	Unsupervised with Syd & TP	Unsupervised	Society & Culture	62	ART19	58
71	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	556	Unknown	38
72	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	213	Libsyn	68
73	Street You Grew Up On	Kerry Washington \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	6	ART19	58
74	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	56	Megaphone	48
75	Hang Out with Sean Hannity	Fox News Media	Society & Culture	71	Libsyn	52
76	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	655	Megaphone	48
77	LOW	Jack Rhysider	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	49
78	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	86	Megaphone	42
79	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	253	Megaphone	38
80	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
81	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	123	ART19	58
82	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
83	The Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg Show	Jenny McCarthy \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	58
84	Locked In with Ian Bick	Ian Bick	Society & Culture	735	Libsyn	63
85	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
86	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	819	Megaphone	64
87	Bloodline Banter	2M Media Group	Society & Culture	42	Podbean	62
88	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	631	Audioboom	73
89	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1125	Simplecast	69
90	Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky	Prufrock LLC	Society & Culture	88	Megaphone	48
91	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	24	Buzzsprout	42
92	Offline with Jon Favreau	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	261	Audioboom	53
93	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	148	Megaphone	68
94	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
95	Pop Apologists	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	317	ART19	38
96	The Art of Manliness	The Art of Manliness	Society & Culture	1189	ART19	48
97	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
98	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	63
99	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
100	Kennedy Saves the World	FOX News Podcasts	Society & Culture	1154	Megaphone	48

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