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 Dec 2025

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12/16/2025

Average data

Episodes: 217

Frequency: every 239 days

Duration: 00:47:46

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. The New York Times (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
7	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
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	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
12	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
13	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
14	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
15	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
16	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
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	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
20	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	10	Libsyn	62
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
23	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
24	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
27	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
29	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
30	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
32	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
33	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
34	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
35	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
37	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
38	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
39	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	438	Acast	53
40	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
41	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	116	BBC	38
42	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
43	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
44	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
45	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1201	Acast	59
46	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
47	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
48	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
49	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	710	Omny Studio	53
50	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	573	Spreaker	74
51	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
52	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
53	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
54	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
55	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
56	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
57	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
58	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
59	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
60	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
61	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
62	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	274	Megaphone	32
63	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
64	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
65	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
66	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
67	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	209	Megaphone	32
68	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
69	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
70	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
71	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
72	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
75	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
76	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
77	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
78	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
79	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
80	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
81	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
83	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
84	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
85	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	661	Acast	69
86	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
87	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
88	WESA Reports: KING	Susan Scott Peterson	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53
89	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
90	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
91	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
92	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
93	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
94	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
95	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
96	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
97	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
98	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
99	Zero Signal	David & Jay Green	Society & Culture	32	RSS.com	83
100	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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