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 05 Jul 2025

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07/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 186

Frequency: every 249 days

Duration: 00:47:49

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. BBC (9 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	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
7	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
8	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	350	ART19	68
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
13	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
14	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
15	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
16	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
17	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
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	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
22	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
23	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
29	Welcome Legacy Podcast	James Welcome	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	48
30	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
32	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
33	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
34	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
35	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
36	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
37	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
38	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
39	Heroes Behind Headlines	Heroes Behind Headlines	Society & Culture	199	Buzzsprout	58
40	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
41	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
43	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
44	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
45	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
46	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
47	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
48	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
49	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
50	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
51	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
52	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
54	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
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	Causality	The Engineered Network	Society & Culture	64	Unknown	89
58	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
59	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
60	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
61	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
62	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
63	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
64	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
65	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
66	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
67	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
68	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
69	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
70	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
71	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
72	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
73	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
74	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
75	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
76	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
77	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
78	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
79	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
80	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
81	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	266	Megaphone	32
82	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	555	Spreaker	74
83	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
84	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
85	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
86	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
87	Spoiled Fruit: Faith & Power	John Williamson	Society & Culture	21	RedCircle	73
88	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
89	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
90	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
91	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
92	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
93	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
94	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
95	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
96	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
97	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
98	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
99	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	636	Acast	69
100	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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