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 27 May 2025

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05/27/2025

Average data

Episodes: 188

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:47:50

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. audiochuck (2 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 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	944	Simplecast	38
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
4	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
5	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
6	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
10	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
11	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
12	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
13	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
14	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
15	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
16	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
19	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
20	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
21	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
23	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
24	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
25	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
26	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
28	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
29	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
31	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
33	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
34	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
35	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
36	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
40	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
41	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	456	RedCircle	59
42	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
43	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
44	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
45	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
46	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
47	Crumbs	My Cultura and Sonoro	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	79
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
49	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
50	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
51	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
52	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
53	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
54	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
55	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
56	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
57	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
58	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
59	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
60	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
61	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	674	Acast	69
62	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
63	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
64	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
65	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
66	Searching for America with Robyn Curnow	Robyn Curnow, Bleav	Society & Culture	58	Simplecast	58
67	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
68	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
69	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
70	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
71	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
72	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
73	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
74	I Am Refocused Radio	I Am Refocused Radio	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	64
75	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
76	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
77	Spoiled Fruit: Faith & Power	John Williamson	Society & Culture	21	RedCircle	73
78	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
79	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
80	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
81	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
82	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
83	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
84	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
85	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
86	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
87	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
88	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
89	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
90	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
91	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
92	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
93	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
94	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
95	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
96	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
97	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
98	Alabama Astronaut	Abe Partridge & Ferrill Gibbs	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	63
99	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
100	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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