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 23 Feb 2025

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02/23/2025

Average data

Episodes: 205

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:46:01

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. The New York Times (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (15 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
4	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
5	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
8	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
9	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
11	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
13	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
14	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
15	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
16	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
18	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
19	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	440	Acast	53
20	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
21	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
22	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
23	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
24	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
25	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	121	BBC	38
26	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
27	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	451	RedCircle	59
28	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
30	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
31	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1203	Acast	59
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
33	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
34	Crumbs	My Cultura and Sonoro	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	79
35	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
36	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
37	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
38	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
42	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
43	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
45	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
46	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
47	OUTLAWS: The Good Thief	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	59
48	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
49	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
50	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	32
51	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
52	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
53	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
54	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
55	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
56	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
57	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
58	OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
59	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
60	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
61	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
62	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
63	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	179	Unknown	83
64	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
65	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	298	Audioboom	58
66	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
67	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
68	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
69	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
70	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
71	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
72	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	275	Megaphone	32
73	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
74	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
75	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	575	Spreaker	74
76	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
77	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
78	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
79	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
80	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
81	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
82	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
83	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
84	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
85	BUZZKILL, presented by REAP/SOW	FERN	Society & Culture	29	PRX	73
86	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
87	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
88	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
89	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
90	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
91	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
92	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
93	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
94	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	666	Acast	69
95	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
96	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
97	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
98	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68
99	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
100	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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