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 Jul 2025

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07/03/2025

Average data

Episodes: 189

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:48:08

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. The New York Times (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 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	937	Simplecast	38
3	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
6	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
8	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	350	ART19	68
10	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
11	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
13	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
14	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
16	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
17	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
18	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
19	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
21	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
22	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
23	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
24	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
26	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
29	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
30	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
31	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
33	Welcome Legacy Podcast	James Welcome	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	48
34	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
35	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
36	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
37	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
38	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
39	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
40	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
41	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
42	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
43	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
44	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
45	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
47	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
48	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
49	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
50	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
51	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
52	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
53	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
54	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
55	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
56	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
57	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
58	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
60	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
61	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
62	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
63	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
64	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
65	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
66	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
67	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
68	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
69	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
70	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	266	Megaphone	32
71	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
72	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
73	The Podcast of Heaven: Faith, Autism, Telepathy and more	podcastofheaven	Society & Culture	2	Podbean	42
74	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	636	Acast	69
75	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
76	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
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
79	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
80	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	555	Spreaker	74
81	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
82	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
83	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
84	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
85	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
86	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
87	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
88	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
89	Spoiled Fruit: Faith & Power	John Williamson	Society & Culture	21	RedCircle	73
90	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
91	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
92	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
93	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
94	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
95	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
96	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
97	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
98	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
99	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	66	Spreaker	43
100	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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