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 Dec 2025

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12/15/2025

Average data

Episodes: 216

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:47:43

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. pepe&chema (2 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Acast (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. PRX (7 shows)

5. Spreaker (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
5	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
6	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
9	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
10	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
11	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
13	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
14	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
15	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
16	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
17	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
19	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
21	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
22	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
23	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	10	Libsyn	62
24	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
25	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
27	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
28	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
30	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
32	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
34	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
35	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	438	Acast	53
36	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	117	BBC	38
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
40	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1201	Acast	59
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
42	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
43	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
44	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
45	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
46	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
47	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
48	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
49	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	573	Spreaker	74
50	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	710	Omny Studio	53
51	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
52	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
54	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
56	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
57	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
58	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
59	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
60	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
61	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
62	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
63	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
64	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
65	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
66	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
67	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
68	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
69	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	274	Megaphone	32
70	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
71	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	209	Megaphone	32
72	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
73	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
74	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
75	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
76	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	528	Spreaker	43
79	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	662	Acast	69
80	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
81	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
83	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
84	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
85	Zero Signal	David & Jay Green	Society & Culture	32	RSS.com	83
86	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
87	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
88	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
89	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
90	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
91	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
92	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
93	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
94	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
95	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
96	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
97	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
98	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
99	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	298	Audioboom	58
100	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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