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 Sep 2025

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09/03/2025

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:47:24

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. The New York Times (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (17 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
6	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
7	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
10	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
11	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
12	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
13	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
14	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
16	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
18	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
19	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
20	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
21	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
23	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
24	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
25	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
27	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
32	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
33	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
34	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
35	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	565	Spreaker	74
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
37	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
38	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
39	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
40	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
41	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
42	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
44	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
45	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
46	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
48	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
49	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
50	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
51	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
52	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
53	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
54	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
55	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
56	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
57	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
58	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
59	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
60	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
61	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
62	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
63	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
64	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
65	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
66	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
67	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
68	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	59
69	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
70	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
71	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
72	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
73	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
74	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
75	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
76	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
77	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
78	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
79	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
80	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	644	Acast	69
81	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
82	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
83	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
84	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
85	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
86	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
87	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
88	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
89	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
90	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
91	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
92	The Experiment	The Atlantic and WNYC Studios	Society & Culture	60	Simplecast	73
93	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
94	Top Comment	BBC	News	99	BBC	48
95	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	344	Acast	64
96	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
97	Taylor Swift' and Travis Kelce	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	49
98	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
99	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
100	No me provoquen: Breaking the Palace	Sonoro	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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