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 06 Jul 2025

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07/06/2025

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:47:15

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. The New York Times (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 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	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
6	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
7	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
9	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
10	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
11	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
13	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
14	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
16	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
17	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
18	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
19	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
21	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
23	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
28	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
29	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
30	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
32	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
33	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
34	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
35	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
37	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
38	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	458	RedCircle	59
39	Heroes Behind Headlines	Heroes Behind Headlines	Society & Culture	199	Buzzsprout	58
40	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
41	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
42	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
43	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
44	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
45	Welcome Legacy Podcast	James Welcome	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	48
46	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
48	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
49	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
50	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
51	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
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	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
56	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
57	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
58	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
59	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
60	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
61	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
62	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
63	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
64	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
65	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
66	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
67	Top Comment	BBC	News	104	BBC	48
68	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
69	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
70	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
71	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
72	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
73	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
74	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
75	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
76	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
77	Causality	The Engineered Network	Society & Culture	64	Unknown	89
78	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
79	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
80	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
81	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
82	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
83	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
84	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
85	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
86	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
87	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
88	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	586	Spreaker	74
89	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
90	Crumbs	My Cultura and Sonoro	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	79
91	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
92	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
93	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
94	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
95	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
96	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	677	Acast	69
97	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
98	Spoiled Fruit: Faith & Power	John Williamson	Society & Culture	21	RedCircle	73
99	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
100	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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