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 18 Feb 2025

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02/18/2025

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 252 days

Duration: 00:44:48

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (19 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1006	Simplecast	38
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
4	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
5	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	527	ART19	68
9	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
10	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
11	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
12	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
13	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
14	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
19	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
20	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	17	ART19	63
21	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
22	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
23	BUZZKILL, presented by REAP/SOW	FERN	Society & Culture	29	PRX	73
24	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
25	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	229	PRX	79
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
27	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
28	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	100	PRX	64
32	Crumbs	My Cultura and Sonoro	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	79
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	263	Acast	69
34	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
35	Rebel on Main	David Swartz	Society & Culture	9	Podbean	48
36	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
37	The Dennis Postema Show	Dennis M. Postema	Society & Culture	26	RedCircle	63
38	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
39	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
42	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
43	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
44	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
45	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
46	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
47	OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
49	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
50	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
51	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	143	Acast	73
52	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	975	Megaphone	52
53	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
54	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
55	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
56	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
57	OUTLAWS: The Good Thief	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	59
58	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	366	Megaphone	43
60	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
61	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
62	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
63	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	216	Acast	79
64	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
65	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
66	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
67	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
68	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
69	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
70	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
71	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
72	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
75	The Last Soviet	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	59
76	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
77	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
78	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
79	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
80	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	53
81	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
82	Extraordinary Stories	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	79
83	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
84	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	555	Spreaker	74
85	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
86	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
87	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
88	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
89	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
90	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
91	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
92	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
93	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
94	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
95	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
96	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	820	Megaphone	53
97	Order 9066	APM Reports & The Smithsonian	Society & Culture	14	American Public Media	63
98	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
99	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
100	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	491	RedCircle	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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