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 25 Nov 2025

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11/25/2025

Average data

Episodes: 216

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:49:30

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

3. The New York Times (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Acast (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. PRX (8 shows)

5. Spreaker (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
6	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
8	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
9	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
10	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
11	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
13	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
14	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
15	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	8	Libsyn	52
16	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
17	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
18	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
20	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
24	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
25	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
26	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
27	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
28	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
29	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
31	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
33	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
34	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
35	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
36	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
37	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
38	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
43	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
45	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
46	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
47	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
48	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
49	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
52	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
53	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	705	Omny Studio	53
54	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
55	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
56	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
57	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
58	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	567	Spreaker	74
59	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
60	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
61	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
62	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
63	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
64	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
65	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
66	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
67	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
68	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
69	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
70	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
71	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
72	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
73	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
74	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
75	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
76	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
77	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
78	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
79	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
80	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
81	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
82	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
83	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
84	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
85	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
86	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
87	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	648	Acast	69
88	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
89	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
90	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
91	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
92	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
93	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
94	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
95	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
97	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
98	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
99	Admissible: Shreds of Evidence	VPM & Story Mechanics	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	53
100	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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