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 Sep 2025

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09/20/2025

Average data

Episodes: 254

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:50:03

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. Spreaker (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
3	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
5	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	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	307	Megaphone	42
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
9	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
11	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
12	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
14	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
15	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
16	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
17	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
19	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
21	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
22	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
23	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
25	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
26	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
27	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
28	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
29	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	706	Omny Studio	53
30	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
31	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
33	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
35	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
36	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
37	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
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
39	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
40	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
41	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
42	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
43	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
44	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
45	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
46	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
47	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
48	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
49	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
50	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
51	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
52	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
53	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
54	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
55	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
56	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
57	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
58	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
59	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
60	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74
61	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
62	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
63	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
64	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
65	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
66	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
67	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
68	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
69	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
70	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
71	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
72	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	550	Spreaker	60
73	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
74	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
75	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
76	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
77	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
78	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
79	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	488	Omny Studio	68
80	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
81	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
82	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
83	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
84	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
85	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
86	Más Allá del Rosa	Jessica Fernández	Society & Culture	234	Acast	79
87	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
88	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
89	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
90	MiedoScope Historias de Terror en Directo	Miedoscope	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	49
91	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
92	The Red Treehouse: Scary Stories to Keep You Up at Night	Will Soto	Society & Culture	288	Megaphone	72
93	The Morning Charge	Massai Edwards	Society & Culture	10	RedCircle	43
94	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
95	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
96	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
97	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
98	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
99	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
100	Country of Dust	Country of Dust	Society & Culture	19	Buzzsprout	38

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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