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 Oct 2025

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10/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 214

Frequency: every 243 days

Duration: 00:48:08

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. BBC (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. The New York Times (2 shows)

5. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	63
2	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	23	Spreaker	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	315	Megaphone	42
7	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	359	ART19	68
10	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	444	Acast	53
11	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
12	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
13	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
15	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	445	Megaphone	32
17	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
19	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
20	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
22	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	62
23	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
24	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	133	BBC	38
25	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	374	Omny Studio	73
26	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
27	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	220	Megaphone	38
29	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
31	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
32	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
33	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
35	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
36	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
37	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
40	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
41	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
42	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
43	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
44	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	73
45	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	286	Megaphone	43
47	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
48	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	32
49	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	272	Spreaker	69
51	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
52	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	714	Omny Studio	53
53	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
54	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	32
55	Sounds Wild	Mike Stark, Vanessa Barchfield	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	63
56	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	678	Acast	69
57	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
58	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
59	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
60	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
61	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
62	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	710	Megaphone	53
63	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
64	Uintah Basin High Strangeness	V6 Media	Society & Culture	6	Podbean	52
65	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	95	Libsyn	62
66	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
67	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
68	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	587	Spreaker	74
69	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
70	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
71	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
72	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
73	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
74	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
75	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
76	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	68
79	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
80	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
81	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
82	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	48
83	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
84	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
85	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	507	RedCircle	43
86	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
87	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
88	Top Comment	BBC	News	104	BBC	48
89	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
90	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
91	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
92	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
93	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
94	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
95	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
96	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
97	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
98	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
99	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
100	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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