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 sept. 2025

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09/08/2025

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 250 days

Duration: 00:47:58

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The New York Times (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. PRX (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
7	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
8	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
10	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
11	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
13	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
14	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
15	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
18	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
19	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
20	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
21	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
24	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
25	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
26	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
27	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
28	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
29	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
31	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
33	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
34	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
35	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
36	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
37	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
38	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
39	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
40	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
41	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
42	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
43	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
44	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
45	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
46	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
47	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
48	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
49	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
51	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
52	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
53	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
54	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
55	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
56	Reveal Presents	Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting	Society & Culture	20	PRX	79
57	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
58	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
59	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
60	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
61	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
62	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
63	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
64	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	89	Buzzsprout	57
65	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
66	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
67	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
68	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
69	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
70	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
71	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
72	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
73	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
74	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
75	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
76	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
77	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
78	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
79	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
80	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
81	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
82	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
83	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	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	522	Spreaker	43
85	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
86	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
87	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
88	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
89	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
90	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
91	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
92	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
93	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
94	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
95	Canary: The Washington Post Investigates	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	12	The Washington Post	59
96	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
97	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
98	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
99	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
100	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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