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 Aug 2025

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08/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 213

Frequency: every 246 days

Duration: 00:50:23

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (6 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	1005	Simplecast	38
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
10	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
11	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
13	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
14	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
15	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
16	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
17	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
18	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
22	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
24	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
25	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
26	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
27	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
29	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
30	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
31	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
34	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
35	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
36	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
37	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
38	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
39	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
40	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
41	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
42	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
44	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
45	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
46	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
47	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
48	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
49	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
50	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
51	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
52	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
53	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
54	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
55	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
56	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
57	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
58	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
59	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
60	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
61	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
62	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
63	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
64	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
65	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
66	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
69	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
70	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
71	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
72	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
73	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
74	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
75	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
76	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
77	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
78	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
79	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
80	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
81	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
82	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
83	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
84	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
85	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
86	I Am Refocused Radio	I Am Refocused Radio	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	64
87	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
88	The Tim Ballard Podcast	Tim Ballard	Society & Culture	12	Buzzsprout	42
89	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
90	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
91	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
92	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
93	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
94	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
95	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
96	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
97	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
98	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
99	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
100	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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