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 Sep 2025

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09/18/2025

Average data

Episodes: 269

Frequency: every 248 days

Duration: 00:50:02

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. Spreaker (8 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
3	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
5	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
10	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
12	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
14	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
15	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
16	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
19	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
21	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
22	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
23	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
24	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
25	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
27	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
28	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
29	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
31	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
32	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
33	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	699	Omny Studio	53
34	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
35	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
37	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
38	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
39	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
40	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
42	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
43	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
44	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
45	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
46	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
47	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
48	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
49	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
50	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
51	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
52	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
53	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
54	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
55	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
56	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
57	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
58	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
59	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
60	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
62	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
63	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
64	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
65	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
66	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
67	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
68	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
69	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	542	Spreaker	60
70	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
71	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
72	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
73	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
74	Más Allá del Rosa	Jessica Fernández	Society & Culture	228	Acast	79
75	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
76	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
77	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
78	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
79	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
80	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
81	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
82	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	479	Omny Studio	68
83	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
84	The Red Treehouse: Scary Stories to Keep You Up at Night	Will Soto	Society & Culture	288	Megaphone	72
85	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
86	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
87	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
88	MiedoScope Historias de Terror en Directo	Miedoscope	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	49
89	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
90	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
91	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
92	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
93	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
94	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
95	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
96	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
97	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
98	True Stories with Seth Andrews	Seth Andrews	Society & Culture	448	Spreaker	53
99	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
100	Chris Chan: A Comprehensive History	Geno Samuel	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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