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 03 Jan 2026

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01/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 217

Frequency: every 243 days

Duration: 00:47:39

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. PRX (7 shows)

5. Spreaker (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	412	Megaphone	63
7	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
9	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
10	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
11	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
12	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
13	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
15	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
20	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
21	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
24	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	126	BBC	38
25	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
26	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
27	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
28	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
31	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	441	Acast	53
32	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	69
33	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
34	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
36	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
37	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1205	Acast	59
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
40	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
41	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	6	ART19	63
42	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
43	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	12	Libsyn	62
44	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
45	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
46	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
47	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
48	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
49	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
50	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
51	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
52	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
53	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
54	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
55	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	409	Buzzsprout	83
56	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
57	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
58	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
59	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	529	Spreaker	43
60	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
61	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
62	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
63	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
64	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
65	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
66	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	6	ART19	63
67	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	712	Omny Studio	53
68	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
69	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
70	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	580	Spreaker	74
71	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
72	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	32
73	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	277	Megaphone	32
74	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
75	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
76	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
77	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
78	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
79	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
80	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
81	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
82	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
83	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
84	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	671	Acast	69
85	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
86	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
87	The Red Treehouse: Scary Stories to Keep You Up at Night	Will Soto	Society & Culture	288	Megaphone	72
88	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
89	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
90	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
91	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
92	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
93	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
94	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
95	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
96	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
97	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
98	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
99	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
100	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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