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 Jul 2026

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07/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 200

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:45:35

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. ART19 (6 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1009	Simplecast	38
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	380	Spreaker	84
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
5	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
6	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
8	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
9	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	204	Simplecast	58
10	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	63
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
13	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
16	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
17	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	231	PRX	79
18	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	488	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	50	RedCircle	63
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
23	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
24	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
26	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
27	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
28	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
29	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
31	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
32	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
33	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
34	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
35	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
36	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	979	Megaphone	52
37	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64
39	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	219	Acast	79
40	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
42	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
45	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
46	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
47	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
48	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
49	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
52	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
53	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
54	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
55	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	18	ART19	63
56	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
57	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
58	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
59	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
60	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
61	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	16	Transistor	73
62	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	21	Captivate	73
63	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
64	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	372	Megaphone	43
65	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
66	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
67	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	705	Omny Studio	53
68	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
69	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
70	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
71	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway Details temporarily unavailable	Sky News	Society & Culture	10	Captivate	42
72	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	42
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
75	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
76	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
77	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
78	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
79	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
80	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
81	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
82	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
83	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
84	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
85	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
86	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	824	Megaphone	53
87	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
88	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
89	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
90	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
91	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
92	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
93	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
94	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
95	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
96	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
97	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
98	Catastrophic Failure	Times Union	Society & Culture	17	Megaphone	64
99	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
100	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	42	BBC	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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