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 10 Jun 2026

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06/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 193

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:46:27

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. Audible Original (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Acast (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
2	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
7	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
10	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
11	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
13	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
14	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
17	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
24	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
25	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
27	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
28	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
31	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
33	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
34	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
35	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
36	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
38	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
40	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
41	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
42	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
43	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
45	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
46	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
47	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
49	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
50	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
51	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
52	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
53	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
54	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
55	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
56	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
57	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
58	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
61	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
62	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
63	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
64	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
65	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
66	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
67	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	712	Omny Studio	53
68	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
69	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
70	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
71	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
72	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
73	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
74	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
75	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
76	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
77	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
78	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
79	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
80	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
81	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
82	Pop Mystery Pod	Tess Barker	Society & Culture	93	Simplecast	73
83	Taylor McMahon	@tayjmcm	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	43
84	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
85	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
86	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
87	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	235	Acast	43
88	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	674	Acast	69
89	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
90	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
91	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
92	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
93	Ghost Herd	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	43
94	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
95	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
96	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
97	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
98	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
99	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
100	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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