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 13 Jul 2025

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07/13/2025

Average data

Episodes: 207

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:47:38

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. The New York Times (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	23	Spreaker	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	947	Simplecast	38
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	415	Megaphone	63
5	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	107	Acast	79
6	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
7	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	316	Megaphone	42
9	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
10	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
11	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
12	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
13	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	359	ART19	68
14	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	29	American Public Media	62
15	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
17	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	73
18	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	73
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
20	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	446	Megaphone	32
22	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	464	RedCircle	59
23	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	444	Acast	53
24	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
25	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
26	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
27	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
28	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	168	Acast	69
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	374	Omny Studio	73
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	220	Megaphone	38
32	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
33	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
34	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
35	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
36	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
37	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	100	WideOrbit	68
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	59	PRX	74
39	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	273	Spreaker	69
41	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	24	Buzzsprout	42
42	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
45	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
46	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	32
47	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
48	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
49	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
50	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
51	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
52	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
53	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	286	Megaphone	43
55	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
56	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
57	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	133	BBC	38
58	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1210	Acast	59
59	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	53
60	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
61	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	95	Libsyn	62
62	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
63	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
64	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
65	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
66	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
67	Unsung Heroes Among Us	CHANGE Consulting	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	53
68	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
69	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	68
70	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
71	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
72	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
73	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
74	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
75	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	32
76	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	589	Spreaker	74
77	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	679	Acast	69
78	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
79	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
80	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
81	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	711	Megaphone	53
82	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
83	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
84	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
85	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
86	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
87	I Am Refocused Radio	I Am Refocused Radio	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	64
88	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
89	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	194	Ximalaya	53
90	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
91	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
92	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
93	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
94	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
95	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	68
96	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
97	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	531	Spreaker	43
98	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
99	Top Comment	BBC	News	105	BBC	48
100	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	64	Libsyn	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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