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 20 Apr 2025

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04/20/2025

Average data

Episodes: 187

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:47:28

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. PRX (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	939	Simplecast	38
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
4	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
5	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
7	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
9	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
10	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
11	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
12	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
13	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
14	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
15	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
17	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
19	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
20	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
21	This is My Thing	Michael Lee	Society & Culture	17	PRX	79
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
23	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
24	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
25	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
26	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
27	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
28	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
29	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
30	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
32	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
33	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
36	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	428	RedCircle	59
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
38	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
40	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
41	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
42	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
43	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
46	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
47	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
48	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
49	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
50	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
51	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
52	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
53	HUMO: Murder and Silence in El Salvador	Sonoro	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	59
54	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
55	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
56	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
57	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
59	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
60	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
61	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
62	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
63	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
64	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	566	Spreaker	74
65	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
66	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
69	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
70	Stories for Power	StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP)	Society & Culture	12	Buzzsprout	83
71	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	646	Acast	69
72	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
73	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
74	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
75	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
76	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
77	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
78	Sold a Story en español	APM Reports	Society & Culture	2	American Public Media	79
79	Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez	Sonoro \| Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	43
80	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
81	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
82	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
83	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	55	BBC	48
84	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	101	BBC	38
85	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
86	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
87	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
88	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	174	Unknown	83
89	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
90	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
91	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
92	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
93	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
94	The Superhero Complex	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
95	Other Men Need Help	Mark Pagán	Society & Culture	58	PRX	89
96	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
97	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
98	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
99	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
100	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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