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 Aug 2026

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08/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 172

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:48:21

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
2	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
5	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
6	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
7	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
8	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
9	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
12	The Rewriting Humanity	Jim Walsh	Society & Culture	20	Podbean	48
13	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
14	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
15	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
16	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
17	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
18	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
20	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
21	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
23	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
25	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
27	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
28	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
29	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
30	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
31	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	303	WideOrbit	68
32	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
33	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
34	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
35	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
36	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
38	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
39	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
40	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
41	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
43	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
44	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
45	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
46	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
47	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
48	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
49	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
50	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
51	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
52	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	102	BBC	38
53	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
54	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
55	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
56	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
57	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
58	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
59	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
60	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
62	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	22	Captivate	73
63	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
64	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
65	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
66	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
67	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
68	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
69	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
70	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
71	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
72	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
73	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
74	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
75	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
76	HABITUAL	Colorado Radio for Justice	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	69
77	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
78	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
79	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
80	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
81	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
82	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	488	Omny Studio	68
83	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
84	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
85	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	705	Omny Studio	53
86	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
87	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
88	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
89	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
90	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	History	56	Buzzsprout	32
91	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
92	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
93	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
94	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
95	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
96	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
97	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
98	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
99	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
100	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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