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 11 Feb 2025

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02/11/2025

Average data

Episodes: 185

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:46:45

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (12 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	945	Simplecast	38
3	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
5	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
8	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
10	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
11	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
12	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
13	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
15	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
16	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
17	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
18	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
19	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	457	RedCircle	59
20	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
22	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
23	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
24	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
27	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
28	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
29	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
30	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
32	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
33	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
34	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
35	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
36	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
37	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
38	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
39	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
40	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
41	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
42	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
43	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
46	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
47	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
49	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	147	Captivate	38
50	Rebel on Main	David Swartz	Society & Culture	9	Podbean	48
51	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
53	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
54	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
55	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
56	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
57	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
58	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
59	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
60	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
61	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
62	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
63	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
64	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
65	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
66	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
67	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	583	Spreaker	74
68	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
69	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
70	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
73	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
74	Backed Up	Cincinnati Public Radio / 91.7 WVXU	Society & Culture	8	Unknown	59
75	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
76	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
77	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
78	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	676	Acast	69
79	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
80	Extraordinary Stories	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	79
81	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
82	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
83	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
84	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
85	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
86	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
87	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	355	Simplecast	78
88	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
89	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	92	Megaphone	58
90	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
91	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
92	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
93	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
94	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
95	Noche de Lluvia Podcast	Insólita Labs I Lourdes Gómez	Society & Culture	46	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
97	BUZZKILL, presented by REAP/SOW	FERN	Society & Culture	29	PRX	73
98	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
99	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
100	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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