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 Mar 2025

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03/23/2025

Average data

Episodes: 225

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:47:48

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1010	Simplecast	38
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	494	Megaphone	63
5	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
6	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
8	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
11	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
12	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
13	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
15	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	442	Acast	53
16	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	231	PRX	79
17	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
18	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
19	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
20	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	103	BBC	53
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
24	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
25	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
26	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
28	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	18	ART19	63
29	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
30	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
31	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
32	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
33	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
34	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	431	RedCircle	59
35	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64
37	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
38	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
39	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
40	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
41	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
42	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	222	Acast	79
43	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	979	Megaphone	52
44	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	174	BBC	38
47	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
48	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
49	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
50	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
51	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
52	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
53	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
54	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
55	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
58	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	372	Megaphone	43
59	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
60	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
61	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
62	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
63	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
64	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
65	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
66	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
67	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
68	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
69	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	48
70	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
71	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
72	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
73	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
74	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
75	My Favorite Friendship	Marc Muszynski & Brian Wohl	Society & Culture	129	Buzzsprout	48
76	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
77	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
78	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74
79	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
80	Crumbs	My Cultura and Sonoro	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	79
81	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
82	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	461	Acast	74
83	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
84	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
85	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
86	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	825	Megaphone	53
87	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
88	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
89	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	42	BBC	58
90	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
91	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	42
92	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
93	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
94	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
95	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
96	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
97	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
98	Solved & Sealed	Massai Edwards	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	43
99	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	176	Unknown	83
100	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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