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 Sep 2026

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09/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 191

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:47:54

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. The Guardian (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1008	Simplecast	38
2	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
5	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
6	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
7	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	40	BBC	58
8	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
9	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	203	Simplecast	58
10	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
11	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
12	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
13	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	The Rewriting Humanity	Jim Walsh	Society & Culture	20	Podbean	48
17	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
18	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
19	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	264	Acast	69
20	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	69
21	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	219	Acast	79
25	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
27	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
28	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	331	WideOrbit	68
29	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
30	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	230	PRX	79
32	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	823	Megaphone	53
33	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
34	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
35	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
38	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
41	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	977	Megaphone	52
43	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	369	Megaphone	43
45	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
46	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
47	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
48	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	32
49	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
52	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
53	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	18	ART19	73
54	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	58
55	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	21	Captivate	73
56	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
57	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
58	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
59	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
60	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	525	Spreaker	43
61	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
62	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
63	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
64	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
65	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
66	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
67	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
68	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	268	Megaphone	32
69	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
70	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
71	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	16	Transistor	73
72	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
73	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	704	Omny Studio	53
74	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
75	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
76	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
77	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	486	Omny Studio	68
78	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
79	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
80	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
81	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
82	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	342	Acast	64
83	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
84	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
85	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
86	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
87	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
88	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
89	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
90	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
91	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
92	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	History	56	Buzzsprout	32
93	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
94	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
95	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
96	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
97	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
98	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
99	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
100	Gary Vaynerchuk - Biography Flash Details temporarily unavailable	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	1	Spreaker	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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