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 14 Aug 2026

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08/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 176

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:48:07

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. The Guardian (2 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (16 shows)

4. Buzzsprout (7 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
2	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
5	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
6	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
7	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
8	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
13	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
14	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
15	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
16	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
17	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
18	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
19	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
25	The Rewriting Humanity	Jim Walsh	Society & Culture	20	Podbean	48
26	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
29	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
30	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
31	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
32	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
33	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
34	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
35	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
36	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
37	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
39	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
40	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
41	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
42	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
43	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
44	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
45	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
46	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
47	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
48	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
49	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
50	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
51	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
52	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
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
54	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
55	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
56	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
57	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
58	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	22	Captivate	73
59	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
60	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
61	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
62	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
63	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
64	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
65	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
66	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
67	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
68	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
69	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
70	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
71	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
72	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
73	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	488	Omny Studio	68
74	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
75	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
76	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
77	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
78	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
79	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
80	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
81	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
82	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
83	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
84	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
85	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
86	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
87	Witch Dark Tales	Megan	Society & Culture	85	Spotify for Podcasters	28
88	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
89	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
90	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
91	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
92	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
93	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
94	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
95	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
96	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
97	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	History	56	Buzzsprout	32
98	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	705	Omny Studio	53
99	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
100	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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