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 07 Aug 2025

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08/07/2025

Average data

Episodes: 208

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:48:52

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Spreaker (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	939	Simplecast	38
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
4	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
5	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
9	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
10	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
12	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
13	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
14	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
15	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
16	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
17	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
18	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
19	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
20	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
23	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
24	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
25	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
27	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	427	RedCircle	59
28	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
30	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
32	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
33	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
34	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
35	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
36	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
37	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
40	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
41	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
44	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
46	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
47	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
48	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
49	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
50	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
51	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
52	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
53	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
54	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
55	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
56	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
57	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
58	Top Comment	BBC	News	99	BBC	48
59	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
60	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
61	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
62	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
63	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
64	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
65	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
66	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
67	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
68	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
69	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
70	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	565	Spreaker	74
71	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
72	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
73	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
74	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
75	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
76	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	59
77	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
78	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
79	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
80	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
81	The Invisible Hand	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	8	Audioboom	73
82	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
83	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
84	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
85	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	344	Acast	64
86	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
88	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
89	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	644	Acast	69
90	I Am Refocused Radio	I Am Refocused Radio	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	64
91	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
92	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
93	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
94	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
95	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
96	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
97	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
98	Arcane Carolinas	Arcane Carolinas	Society & Culture	130	Libsyn	73
99	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
100	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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