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 16 Jun 2025

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06/16/2025

Average data

Episodes: 195

Frequency: every 243 days

Duration: 00:47:18

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. KUOW News and Information (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (15 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
6	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
8	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
9	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
10	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
12	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
14	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
16	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
17	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
18	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
20	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
21	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	431	RedCircle	59
22	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
23	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
26	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
27	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
28	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
30	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
31	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
32	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
33	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
35	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
36	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
37	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
38	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
39	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
41	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
42	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
43	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
46	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
47	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
48	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
49	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
50	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
51	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
52	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	174	Unknown	83
53	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
54	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
55	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
56	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
57	Spoiled Fruit: Faith & Power	John Williamson	Society & Culture	21	RedCircle	73
58	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
59	Let the Kids Dance!	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	73
60	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
61	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
62	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
63	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
64	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
65	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
66	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	48
67	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
68	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
69	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
70	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
71	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
72	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
73	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74
74	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
75	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
76	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
77	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
78	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
79	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
80	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
81	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
82	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
83	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
84	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
85	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
86	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
87	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
88	Unsung Heroes Among Us	CHANGE Consulting	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	53
89	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	129	Spotify for Podcasters	38
90	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
91	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
92	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
93	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
94	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
95	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
96	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
97	I Am Refocused Radio	I Am Refocused Radio	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	64
98	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
99	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
100	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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