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 Apr 2025

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04/23/2025

Average data

Episodes: 185

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:46:31

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. pepe&chema (2 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. Wavland (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Acast (15 shows)

3. Simplecast (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
4	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
8	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
9	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
10	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
11	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
12	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
13	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
14	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
15	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
18	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
19	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
20	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
21	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
22	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
23	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
24	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
25	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
27	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
28	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
29	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
30	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
31	This is My Thing	Michael Lee	Society & Culture	17	PRX	79
32	White Smoke - Pope Leo’s Cancer Diagnosis	Caloroga Media	News	134	Spreaker	63
33	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	457	RedCircle	59
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
35	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
36	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
38	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
40	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
41	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
42	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
43	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
44	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
46	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
47	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
48	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
49	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
50	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
51	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
52	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
53	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
54	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
55	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
56	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	676	Acast	69
57	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
58	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
59	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
60	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
62	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
63	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
64	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
65	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
66	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
67	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
68	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
69	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
70	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	583	Spreaker	74
71	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
72	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
73	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
74	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
75	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
76	Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez	Sonoro \| Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	43
77	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
78	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
79	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
80	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
81	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
82	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
83	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
84	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
85	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
86	Noche de Lluvia Podcast	Insólita Labs I Lourdes Gómez	Society & Culture	46	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
88	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
89	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
90	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
91	HUMO: Murder and Silence in El Salvador	Sonoro	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	59
92	Stories for Power	StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP)	Society & Culture	12	Buzzsprout	83
93	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
94	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
95	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
96	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
97	Sold a Story en español	APM Reports	Society & Culture	2	American Public Media	79
98	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
99	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
100	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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