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 12 Jul 2025

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07/12/2025

Average data

Episodes: 205

Frequency: every 238 days

Duration: 00:47:10

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Acast (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
6	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
7	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
8	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
10	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
11	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
13	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
14	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
15	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
17	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
18	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
19	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
21	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
23	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
24	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	456	RedCircle	59
27	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
30	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
32	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
33	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
34	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
35	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
36	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
38	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
39	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
40	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
41	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
42	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
43	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
44	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
45	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
46	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
47	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
48	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
49	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
50	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
51	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
52	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
54	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
55	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
56	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
57	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
58	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
59	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
60	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
61	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
62	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
63	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
64	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
66	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
67	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
68	Unsung Heroes Among Us	CHANGE Consulting	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	53
69	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
70	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
71	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
72	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
73	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
74	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
75	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
76	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
77	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
78	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
79	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
80	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
81	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
82	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	674	Acast	69
83	I Am Refocused Radio	I Am Refocused Radio	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	64
84	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
85	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
86	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
87	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
88	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
89	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
90	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	580	Spreaker	74
91	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
92	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
93	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
94	This is My Thing	Michael Lee	Society & Culture	17	PRX	79
95	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
96	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
97	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
98	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
99	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
100	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

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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