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 Dec 2025

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12/20/2025

Average data

Episodes: 219

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:48:13

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Acast (13 shows)

4. Spreaker (7 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
3	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
6	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
7	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
9	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
11	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
12	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
13	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
14	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
17	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
18	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
20	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
23	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
24	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
26	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	8	Libsyn	52
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
28	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
29	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
30	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
31	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
33	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
34	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
35	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	105	BBC	38
36	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
37	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
38	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
40	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
41	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
42	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
44	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
45	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
46	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
47	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
49	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
50	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
51	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
52	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	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
55	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
56	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
57	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
58	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	569	Spreaker	74
59	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
60	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	706	Omny Studio	53
61	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
62	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
63	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
64	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
65	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
66	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
67	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
68	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
69	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
70	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
73	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
74	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
75	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	271	Megaphone	32
76	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
77	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
78	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	702	Megaphone	53
79	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
80	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
81	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
82	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
83	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
84	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
85	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
86	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	73
87	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
88	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
89	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
90	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	650	Acast	69
91	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
92	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
93	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
94	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
95	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	488	Omny Studio	68
96	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
97	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
98	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
99	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
100	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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