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 17 Nov 2025

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11/17/2025

Average data

Episodes: 214

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:48:51

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. pepe&chema (2 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Acast (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	412	Megaphone	63
6	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
7	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	312	Megaphone	42
9	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
10	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	11	Libsyn	62
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
12	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
13	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
14	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
15	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
16	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
18	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
19	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
20	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	441	Acast	53
21	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
23	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
24	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
26	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
27	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
28	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
29	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
31	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
32	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
33	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
34	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	123	BBC	38
35	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
36	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
37	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
38	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
39	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
40	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
41	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
43	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
44	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
45	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
46	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
47	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1204	Acast	59
49	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	711	Omny Studio	53
50	Zero Signal	David & Jay Green	Society & Culture	32	RSS.com	83
51	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
53	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	576	Spreaker	74
54	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
55	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
56	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
57	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
58	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
59	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
60	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
61	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
62	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
63	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
64	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	668	Acast	69
65	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
66	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
67	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
68	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	32
69	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
70	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
71	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
72	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
73	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
74	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	276	Megaphone	32
75	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
76	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
77	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
78	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	529	Spreaker	43
79	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
82	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
83	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
84	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
85	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
86	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
87	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
88	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
89	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
90	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
91	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
92	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
93	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
94	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
95	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
96	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
97	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
98	THE RYAN FILES	With Ryan Pelton	Society & Culture	111	Spotify for Podcasters	63
99	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
100	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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