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 Oct 2026

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10/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:46:03

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. The Guardian (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Simplecast (8 shows)

4. ART19 (8 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	312	Megaphone	42
4	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	269	WideOrbit	48
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
7	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
10	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
11	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
12	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
14	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
17	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
18	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
19	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	123	BBC	38
20	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
21	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
22	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
23	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
24	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
25	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
26	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	89	Unknown	63
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
30	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
31	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
32	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
33	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
35	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
36	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	711	Omny Studio	53
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
39	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
40	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
41	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
42	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
43	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
44	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1204	Acast	59
45	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
46	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
47	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
48	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
49	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	68
50	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
51	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
52	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	4	ART19	58
53	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
56	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
57	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
58	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	179	Unknown	83
59	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
60	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
61	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
62	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
63	Taming Lyons	Autonomous	Society & Culture	11	Acast	89
64	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
65	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	11	Libsyn	62
66	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
67	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
68	Lore Lodge Podcast	Lodge	Society & Culture	175	Spreaker	38
69	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
70	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	154	Spotify for Podcasters	52
71	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
72	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
73	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	32
74	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
75	Kendall Rae Details temporarily unavailable	Kendall Rae	Documentary	90	N/A	N/A
76	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	87	Spotify for Podcasters	52
77	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
78	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
79	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
80	After The Hatch: Fly Fishing Stories from Big Sky Country & Beyond	Steve Hoovler	Documentary	4	Unknown	63
81	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
82	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	276	Megaphone	32
83	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
84	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
85	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
86	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
87	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
88	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
89	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
90	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	233	Acast	43
91	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
92	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
93	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
94	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
95	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
96	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
97	SNAPPED: The Podcast	Lucy Taylor	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	63
98	True Crime News	True Crime News	Society & Culture	333	Spreaker	43
99	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
100	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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