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 01 Jun 2025

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06/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 197

Frequency: every 248 days

Duration: 00:48:43

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. pepe&chema (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. The New York Times (2 shows)

5. Wavland (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Omny Studio (15 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. ART19 (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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
4	Cult of Body & Soul	Jess Rothschild & Broadway Podcast Network	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
6	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
8	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
10	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
11	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
12	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
13	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
14	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
15	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
16	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
17	White Men Can't Work!	Tim Samuels	Society & Culture	6	Acast	74
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
19	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
20	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
21	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
22	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
23	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
24	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
25	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
26	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
28	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
29	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
32	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
33	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
34	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
35	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
36	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
37	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
38	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
39	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
42	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
43	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
44	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
45	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
46	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
47	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
48	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
49	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
50	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
51	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
52	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
53	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
54	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
55	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
56	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
57	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
58	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
59	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
60	Crumbs	My Cultura and Sonoro	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	79
61	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
62	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
63	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
64	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
65	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
66	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
67	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
68	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
69	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
70	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
71	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	128	Spotify for Podcasters	38
72	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
73	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
74	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
75	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
76	Happiest Retirees	Ryan Doolittle	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	64
77	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
78	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
79	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
80	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
81	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
82	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
83	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
84	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
85	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
86	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
87	I Am Refocused Radio	I Am Refocused Radio	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	64
88	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
89	Spoiled Fruit: Faith & Power	John Williamson	Society & Culture	21	RedCircle	73
90	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
91	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
92	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
93	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	53
94	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
95	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
96	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
97	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
98	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
99	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
100	10 Mujeres	Wondery \| Dudas Media	Society & Culture	11	ART19	89

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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