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 Aug 2025

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08/03/2025

Average data

Episodes: 206

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:49:12

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
5	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
6	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
9	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
10	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
11	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
13	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
15	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
16	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
18	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
19	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
20	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
26	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
27	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
28	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
29	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
32	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
33	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
34	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
35	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
36	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
37	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
38	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
39	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
41	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
43	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
44	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
45	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
46	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
47	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
48	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
49	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
50	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
52	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
53	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
54	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
55	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
57	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
58	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
59	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
60	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
61	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
62	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
63	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
64	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
65	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
66	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
67	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
68	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
69	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
70	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
71	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
72	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
75	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
76	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
77	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
78	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
79	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
80	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
81	The Tim Ballard Podcast	Tim Ballard	Society & Culture	12	Buzzsprout	42
82	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
83	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
84	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
85	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
86	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
87	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
88	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
89	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
90	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
91	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
92	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
93	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
94	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
95	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
96	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
97	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
98	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
99	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
100	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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