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 19 Jul 2025

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07/19/2025

Average data

Episodes: 194

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:49:13

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. The New York Times (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
6	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
8	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
11	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
13	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
15	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
16	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
17	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
21	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
22	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
24	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
25	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
29	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
32	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
34	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
35	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
38	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
39	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
40	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
41	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
42	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
43	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
44	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
45	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
46	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
47	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
48	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
49	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
50	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
51	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
52	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
53	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
55	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
57	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
58	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
59	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
60	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
61	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
62	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
63	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
64	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
65	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
66	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
67	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
68	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
69	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
70	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
71	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
72	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
73	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
74	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
75	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
76	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
77	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
78	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
79	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
80	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	28
81	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
82	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
83	Unsung Heroes Among Us	CHANGE Consulting	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	53
84	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
85	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
86	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
87	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
88	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
89	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	128	Spotify for Podcasters	38
90	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
91	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
92	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
93	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
94	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
95	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
96	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
97	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
98	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
99	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
100	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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