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 Feb 2025

Country

Main category

Sub category

Date

02/03/2025

Average data

Episodes: 183

Frequency: every 243 days

Duration: 00:48:03

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. The New York Times (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Acast (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
4	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
5	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
10	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
11	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
12	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
13	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
14	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
16	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
17	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
18	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
19	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
20	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
21	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
23	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
24	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
25	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
28	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	456	RedCircle	59
29	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
31	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
32	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
34	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
35	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
36	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
37	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
42	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
43	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
44	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
45	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
46	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
47	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
48	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
49	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
51	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	147	Captivate	38
52	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
55	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
57	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
58	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
59	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
60	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
61	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
62	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
63	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
64	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
65	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
66	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
67	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
68	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
69	BUZZKILL, presented by REAP/SOW	FERN	Society & Culture	29	PRX	73
70	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
71	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
72	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
73	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
74	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
75	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
76	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
77	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
78	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
79	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
80	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	580	Spreaker	74
81	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
82	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
83	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
84	Alabama Astronaut	Abe Partridge & Ferrill Gibbs	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	63
85	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
86	Admissible: Shreds of Evidence	VPM & Story Mechanics	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	53
87	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	674	Acast	69
88	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
89	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
90	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
91	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
92	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
93	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
94	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
95	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
96	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
97	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
98	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
99	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
100	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49

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.

For those interested in podcast creation, knowing the best hosting services and the most successful authors in your category can provide a competitive edge. Whether you're looking to start your own show or just want to see what's popular, this ranking offers a valuable snapshot of the podcasting world in USA.
Explore more data on podcast rankings by diving into other categories and countries, and stay ahead in the ever-changing podcast scene.

Previous charts Next charts

About Methodology Contact Support me Privacy Policy Legal Notice