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 02 Oct 2026

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10/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 172

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:45:34

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (17 shows)

2. Acast (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1010	Simplecast	38
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	42	BBC	58
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
6	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	204	Simplecast	58
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
8	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
9	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
11	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
12	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
17	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
18	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
19	The Rewriting Humanity	Jim Walsh	Society & Culture	20	Podbean	48
20	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
21	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
22	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	4	PRX	59
23	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
24	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
25	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
26	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	103	BBC	53
27	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
28	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
30	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
32	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	303	WideOrbit	68
33	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
35	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	172	BBC	38
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
40	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
41	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
42	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
43	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
44	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
46	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
47	Not Special: A Liberty Speaks Show	Liberty Speaks	Society & Culture	48	Buzzsprout	72
48	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
49	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
50	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
51	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
52	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
53	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
57	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
58	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
59	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
60	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	176	Unknown	83
61	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
62	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
63	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
64	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
65	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
66	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
67	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	68
68	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
69	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
70	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
71	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
72	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
73	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
74	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
75	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
76	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
77	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
78	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
79	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
80	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
81	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
82	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
83	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
84	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
85	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	52
86	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
87	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	22	Captivate	73
88	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
89	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
90	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
91	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	706	Omny Studio	53
92	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
93	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
94	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
95	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
97	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
98	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
99	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
100	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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