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 Nov 2025

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11/20/2025

Average data

Episodes: 215

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:50:04

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. Jaxxon Podcast (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Acast (13 shows)

4. PRX (7 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
6	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
8	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
10	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
12	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
13	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	48
14	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	7	Libsyn	58
15	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
16	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
17	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
18	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
20	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
23	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
25	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
26	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
28	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
32	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
33	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
34	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
35	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
38	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
39	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
40	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
41	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
42	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
43	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
44	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
45	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
46	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
48	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
49	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
50	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
51	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	32
52	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
53	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
54	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
55	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
56	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	525	Spreaker	43
57	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
58	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
59	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
60	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
61	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
62	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
63	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	565	Spreaker	74
64	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
65	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
66	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
67	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
68	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	644	Acast	69
69	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
70	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
71	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	704	Omny Studio	53
72	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
73	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
74	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
75	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
76	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
77	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
78	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
79	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
80	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
81	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
82	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	59
83	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
84	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
85	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
86	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
87	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
88	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
89	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
90	Zero Signal	David & Jay Green	Society & Culture	32	RSS.com	83
91	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
92	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
93	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
94	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
95	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
96	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
97	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
98	Past Medical History: The Story of EMS	Nova Sequence Studio \| Long Pause Media \| FlightBridgeED	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	79
99	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	342	Acast	64
100	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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