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 Jul 2026

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07/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 178

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:46:09

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (7 shows)

2. Audible (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (15 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	115	Spreaker	84
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
5	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
6	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
8	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
9	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
10	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	58
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
12	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
15	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
16	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	481	Omny Studio	68
19	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
20	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
21	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
23	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
24	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
26	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
27	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
28	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
30	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
31	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
32	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
33	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
34	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
35	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
36	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
37	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
41	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
42	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
43	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
44	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
45	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
46	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
47	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
48	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
50	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
51	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
52	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
54	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
55	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
56	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
57	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
58	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
59	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
60	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
61	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
62	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
63	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
64	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
65	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
66	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
67	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
68	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
69	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
70	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
71	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
72	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
73	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	699	Omny Studio	53
74	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
75	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
76	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
77	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
78	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
79	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
80	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	48
81	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
82	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
84	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
85	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
86	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
87	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	1	Acast	69
88	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
89	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
90	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
91	Catastrophic Failure	Times Union	Society & Culture	17	Megaphone	64
92	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
93	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
94	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
95	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
96	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
97	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
98	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
99	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
100	Lore Lodge Podcast	Lodge	Society & Culture	123	Spreaker	38

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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