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 04 Jul 2025

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07/04/2025

Average data

Episodes: 193

Frequency: every 252 days

Duration: 00:48:22

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
4	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
7	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
11	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
12	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
13	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
15	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
16	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
17	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
18	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
19	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
20	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
21	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
24	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
27	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
28	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
29	Welcome Legacy Podcast	James Welcome	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	48
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
32	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
33	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
35	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
36	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
37	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
38	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
39	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
40	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
41	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
42	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
43	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
44	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
45	Heroes Behind Headlines	Heroes Behind Headlines	Society & Culture	199	Buzzsprout	58
46	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
47	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
48	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
49	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
50	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
51	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
52	Causality	The Engineered Network	Society & Culture	64	Unknown	89
53	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
54	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
55	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
56	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
57	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
58	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
60	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
61	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
62	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
63	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
64	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
65	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
66	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
67	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
68	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
69	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
70	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
71	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
72	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
73	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
74	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
75	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
76	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
77	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
78	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
79	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
80	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
81	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
82	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
83	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
84	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
85	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	555	Spreaker	74
86	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
87	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
88	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
89	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
90	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
91	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
92	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
93	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
94	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
95	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
96	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	697	Megaphone	53
97	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
98	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
99	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
100	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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