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 24 Jul 2025

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07/24/2025

Average data

Episodes: 198

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:49:29

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (17 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. BBC (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	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
5	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
7	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
10	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
13	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
14	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
15	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
16	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
18	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
20	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
23	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
26	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
27	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
28	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
29	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	457	RedCircle	59
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
34	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
35	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
36	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
38	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
39	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
40	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
41	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
42	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
43	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
44	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
45	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
48	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
49	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
50	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
52	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
53	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
54	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
56	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
57	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
58	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
59	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
60	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
61	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
62	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
63	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
64	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
65	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
66	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
67	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	28
68	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
69	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
70	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
71	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
72	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
75	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	Acast	69
76	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
77	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
78	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
79	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
80	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
81	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
82	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
83	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
84	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
85	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
86	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
87	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
88	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	582	Spreaker	74
89	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
90	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
91	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
92	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
93	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
94	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
95	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
96	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
97	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
98	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
99	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
100	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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