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 21 Jun 2025

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06/21/2025

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:46:37

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. The New York Times (2 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
8	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
10	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
11	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	440	Acast	53
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
13	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
14	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
16	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
17	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
18	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
19	The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	10	The Washington Post	63
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
21	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
22	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
23	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	451	RedCircle	59
24	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
27	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
28	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
29	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
30	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
31	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
32	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
33	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
34	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
35	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
36	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
37	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
38	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	121	BBC	38
40	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
41	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
42	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
43	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
44	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
45	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
46	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
47	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	32
48	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
49	Blind Guy Travels	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	8	PRX	79
50	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
51	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
52	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73
53	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
54	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
55	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
56	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
57	Spoiled Fruit: Faith & Power	John Williamson	Society & Culture	21	RedCircle	73
58	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
59	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	22	Libsyn	53
60	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
61	I Am Refocused Radio	I Am Refocused Radio	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	64
62	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
63	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
64	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	666	Acast	69
65	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
66	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	575	Spreaker	74
67	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
68	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
69	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
70	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	179	Unknown	83
71	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
72	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	275	Megaphone	32
73	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
74	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
75	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1203	Acast	59
76	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
77	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
78	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
79	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
80	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	58	BBC	58
81	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
82	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
83	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
84	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
85	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
86	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
87	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
88	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
89	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
90	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
91	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
92	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
93	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
94	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	529	Spreaker	43
95	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
96	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
97	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
98	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
99	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
100	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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