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 Jul 2025

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07/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 201

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:49:09

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (8 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	937	Simplecast	38
3	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
11	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
12	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
13	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
14	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	350	ART19	68
15	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
16	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
19	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
20	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
22	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
23	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
24	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
25	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
26	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
27	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
29	Welcome Legacy Podcast	James Welcome	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	48
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
31	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
32	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
33	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
34	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
35	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
36	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
38	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
39	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
41	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
42	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
43	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
44	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
45	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
46	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
48	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
49	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
50	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
51	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
52	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
53	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
54	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
55	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
56	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
57	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
58	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
59	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
60	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
61	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
62	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
63	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
64	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
65	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
66	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
67	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
68	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
69	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
70	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
71	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
72	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	636	Acast	69
73	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	555	Spreaker	74
74	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	266	Megaphone	32
75	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
76	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
77	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
78	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
79	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
80	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
81	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
82	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	491	RedCircle	43
83	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
84	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
85	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
86	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	523	Spreaker	43
87	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
88	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
89	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
90	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
91	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
92	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
93	Spoiled Fruit: Faith & Power	John Williamson	Society & Culture	21	RedCircle	73
94	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
95	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
96	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
97	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
98	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
99	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	128	Spotify for Podcasters	38
100	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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