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 08 Jul 2026

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07/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 185

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:44:46

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (18 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. BBC (6 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
2	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
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	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
6	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
7	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
8	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
9	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
10	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
11	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
13	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
14	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
16	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
17	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
18	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
19	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
23	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
25	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
26	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
27	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
29	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
30	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
31	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
34	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
35	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
37	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
40	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
41	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
42	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
43	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
44	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
45	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
46	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
47	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
48	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
50	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
51	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
52	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
55	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
56	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
57	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
58	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
59	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
60	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
61	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
62	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
63	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
64	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
66	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
67	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
68	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
69	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
70	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
71	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	713	Omny Studio	53
72	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
73	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
74	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
75	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
76	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
77	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
78	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
79	La Voz de la Generación Irrompible	Yhon Angel	Society & Culture	120	Spotify for Podcasters	32
80	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
81	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
82	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
83	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
84	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
85	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
86	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
87	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	676	Acast	69
88	Catastrophic Failure	Times Union	Society & Culture	17	Megaphone	64
89	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
90	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
91	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
92	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
93	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
94	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
95	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
96	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
97	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
98	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
99	Lore Lodge Podcast	Lodge	Society & Culture	183	Spreaker	38
100	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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