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 Aug 2025

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08/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 202

Frequency: every 241 days

Duration: 00:51:17

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. BBC (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	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
3	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
6	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
9	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
10	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
11	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
12	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
14	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
15	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
16	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
18	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
19	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
22	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
23	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
25	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
26	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
27	Top Comment	BBC	News	104	BBC	48
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
29	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
30	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
32	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	457	RedCircle	59
33	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
34	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
35	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
36	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
38	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
39	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
40	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
41	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
42	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
43	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
44	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
45	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
46	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
47	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
48	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
49	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
50	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
51	The Tim Ballard Podcast	Tim Ballard	Society & Culture	12	Buzzsprout	42
52	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
53	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
54	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
55	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
56	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
57	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
58	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
60	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
61	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
63	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
64	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
65	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
66	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	582	Spreaker	74
67	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
68	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
69	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
70	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
71	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
72	Hood Stocks	hoodstockspodcast	Society & Culture	404	Podbean	48
73	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
74	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
75	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
76	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
77	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
78	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
79	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
80	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
81	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
82	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
83	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
84	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
85	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
86	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
87	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
88	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
89	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
90	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
91	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
92	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
93	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
94	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
95	Damages	Critical Frequency	Society & Culture	71	Megaphone	63
96	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
97	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
98	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
99	Más Allá del Rosa	Jessica Fernández	Society & Culture	237	Acast	79
100	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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