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 26 Jan 2025

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01/26/2025

Average data

Episodes: 188

Frequency: every 248 days

Duration: 00:48:20

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (13 shows)

5. BBC (5 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	1005	Simplecast	38
3	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
5	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
10	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
11	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
12	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
13	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
14	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
15	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
16	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
17	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
18	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
19	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
21	Little Devils	TRZ Media	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	53
22	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
23	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
24	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
25	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
28	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
29	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
30	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
32	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
33	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
34	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
35	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
36	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
37	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
38	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
39	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
40	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
41	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
42	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
43	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
44	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
45	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
46	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
48	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
50	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
51	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
52	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
53	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
54	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
55	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
56	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
57	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
59	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
60	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
61	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
62	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
63	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
64	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
65	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
66	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
67	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
68	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
69	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
70	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
71	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
72	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	53
73	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
74	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
75	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
76	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
77	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
78	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
79	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
82	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
83	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
84	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
85	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
86	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
87	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	64
88	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
89	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
90	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
91	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
92	Order 9066	APM Reports & The Smithsonian	Society & Culture	14	American Public Media	63
93	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
94	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
95	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
96	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
97	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
98	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
99	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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