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 Jun 2025

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06/27/2025

Average data

Episodes: 194

Frequency: every 243 days

Duration: 00:50:53

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. pepe&chema (2 shows)

3. The New York Times (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 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	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
4	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	312	Megaphone	42
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	412	Megaphone	63
9	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
11	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
12	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
13	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	441	Acast	53
14	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
15	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
16	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	442	Megaphone	32
18	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
19	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
20	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
21	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
24	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	452	RedCircle	59
25	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	58	BBC	58
26	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
27	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
28	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
30	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
31	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
32	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
33	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
34	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
38	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
39	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
40	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
41	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
42	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
43	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
44	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
46	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
47	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	124	BBC	38
48	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
49	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	32
50	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
51	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
52	Top Comment	BBC	News	103	BBC	48
53	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
54	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
55	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	276	Megaphone	32
56	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
57	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
58	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
59	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
60	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
61	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
62	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
63	Más Allá del Rosa	Jessica Fernández	Society & Culture	237	Acast	79
64	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1204	Acast	59
65	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
66	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
67	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
68	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	529	Spreaker	43
69	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
70	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
71	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
72	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
73	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
74	The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	10	The Washington Post	63
75	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
76	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
77	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
78	Spoiled Fruit: Faith & Power	John Williamson	Society & Culture	21	RedCircle	73
79	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	179	Unknown	83
80	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
81	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
82	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	577	Spreaker	74
83	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
84	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	669	Acast	69
85	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
86	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
87	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
88	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
89	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
90	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	408	Buzzsprout	83
91	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
92	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
93	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
94	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
95	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
96	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
97	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
98	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
99	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
100	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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