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 15 mai 2026

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05/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 180

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:45:42

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (18 shows)

3. Acast (17 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
6	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
7	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
10	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
12	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
14	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
15	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
16	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
17	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
20	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
21	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
23	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
24	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
25	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
26	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
27	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
30	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
31	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
32	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
35	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
36	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
38	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
39	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
40	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
41	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
42	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
43	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
44	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
45	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
46	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
47	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
48	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
49	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
50	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
52	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
53	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
54	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
55	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
56	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
57	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
58	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
59	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
60	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
61	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
62	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
63	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
64	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
65	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
66	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	699	Omny Studio	53
67	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
68	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
69	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
70	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
71	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
72	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
73	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
74	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
75	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
76	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
77	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
78	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
79	The Modern West	Wyoming Public Media	Society & Culture	134	PRX	69
80	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
81	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
82	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
83	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
84	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
85	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
86	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
87	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
88	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
89	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
90	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
91	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
92	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
93	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
94	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
95	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
96	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
97	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
98	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
99	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
100	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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