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 Nov 2026

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11/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 228

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:46:37

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

3. TTT Media (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	947	Simplecast	38
2	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	162	Megaphone	48
3	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	29	American Public Media	62
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	316	Megaphone	42
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	359	ART19	68
7	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
8	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	446	Megaphone	32
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
11	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	63
12	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	59	PRX	74
13	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	56	Megaphone	48
15	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	107	Acast	79
17	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	24	Buzzsprout	42
18	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	273	Spreaker	69
19	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	168	Acast	69
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	220	Megaphone	38
23	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	374	Omny Studio	73
24	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	69
25	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	48
26	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	307	WideOrbit	68
27	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
28	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
29	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
30	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	718	Omny Studio	53
31	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	100	WideOrbit	68
32	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	91	Omny Studio	63
33	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1210	Acast	59
34	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
35	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
36	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	133	BBC	38
37	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
38	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	73
39	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
40	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	275	PRX	43
41	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
42	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
43	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	32
44	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	531	Spreaker	43
45	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
46	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	173	Omny Studio	89
47	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
48	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	32
49	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
50	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	712	Megaphone	53
51	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	15	Acast	74
52	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	95	Libsyn	62
54	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	68
55	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	72	Acast	83
56	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	79
57	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	53
58	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	302	Audioboom	58
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	286	Megaphone	43
60	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	6	ART19	58
61	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Acast	63
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	156	Spotify for Podcasters	52
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	194	Ximalaya	53
65	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
66	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	509	RedCircle	43
67	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
68	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
69	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
70	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	153	N/A	N/A
71	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	73
72	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	504	Omny Studio	68
73	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
74	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
75	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
76	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
77	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
78	MiedoScope Historias de Terror en Directo	Miedoscope	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	49
79	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
80	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	8	PRX	59
81	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	454	Acast	74
82	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
83	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	93	Spotify for Podcasters	32
84	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	48
85	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	357	Simplecast	78
86	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
87	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
88	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	348	Acast	64
89	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
90	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	16	BBC	63
91	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	206	Spreaker	68
92	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	89	Spotify for Podcasters	52
93	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	27	ART19	73
94	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	680	Acast	69
95	Curse of: America's Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	58
96	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
97	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
98	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	239	Acast	43
99	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
100	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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