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 09 Feb 2025

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02/09/2025

Average data

Episodes: 188

Frequency: every 241 days

Duration: 00:47:32

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (7 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	944	Simplecast	38
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	412	Megaphone	63
4	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
5	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
10	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	441	Acast	53
11	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	6	ART19	63
12	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
13	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
14	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
15	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	453	RedCircle	59
18	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
19	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	6	ART19	63
20	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
22	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
24	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
25	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
27	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
28	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
29	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	126	BBC	38
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
33	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
34	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
35	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
36	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	32
37	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
38	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
39	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1205	Acast	59
40	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
41	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
42	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
44	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
45	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
46	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
47	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
48	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
49	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
50	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
51	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	147	Captivate	38
52	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
53	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
54	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
55	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
56	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
57	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
58	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
59	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
60	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
61	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
62	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	409	Buzzsprout	83
63	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	580	Spreaker	74
64	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
65	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	179	Unknown	83
66	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
67	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
68	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
69	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
70	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
71	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
72	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	92	Megaphone	58
73	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
74	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	277	Megaphone	32
75	Rebel on Main	David Swartz	Society & Culture	9	Podbean	48
76	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
77	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
78	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
79	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
80	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
81	The Blonde Fixer	Michelle Boxx	Society & Culture	3	Buzzsprout	79
82	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	671	Acast	69
83	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	529	Spreaker	43
84	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
85	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
86	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
87	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
88	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
89	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
90	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
91	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
92	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
93	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
94	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68
95	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
96	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
97	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
98	Noche de Lluvia Podcast	Insólita Labs I Lourdes Gómez	Society & Culture	46	Spotify for Podcasters	28
99	BUZZKILL, presented by REAP/SOW	FERN	Society & Culture	29	PRX	73
100	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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