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 Aug 2025

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08/15/2025

Average data

Episodes: 222

Frequency: every 237 days

Duration: 00:49:07

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. Spreaker (8 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	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
5	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
6	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
11	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
13	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
14	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
16	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
17	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
18	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
19	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	456	RedCircle	59
20	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
21	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
22	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
23	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
25	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
26	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
27	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
28	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	Taylor Swift' and Travis Kelce	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	49
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
33	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
34	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
35	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
36	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
37	In The Wild	Narrative.fm	Society & Culture	157	Simplecast	63
38	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
39	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
40	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
41	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
42	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
43	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
44	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
45	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
48	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
49	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
50	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
51	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
52	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
53	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
54	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
55	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
56	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
57	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
58	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
59	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
60	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
61	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
62	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
63	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
64	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
65	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
66	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
67	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
68	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
69	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
70	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	580	Spreaker	74
71	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
72	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
73	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
74	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
75	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
76	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
77	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
78	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
79	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
80	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
81	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	674	Acast	69
82	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
83	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
84	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
85	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
86	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
87	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
88	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
89	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
90	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
91	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	565	Spreaker	60
92	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
93	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
94	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
95	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
96	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
97	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
98	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
99	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
100	Top Comment	BBC	News	103	BBC	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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