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 Dec 2025

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12/27/2025

Average data

Episodes: 221

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:48:30

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. pepe&chema (2 shows)

3. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. SpectreVision Radio (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Omny Studio (13 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. PRX (8 shows)

5. Spreaker (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	303	Megaphone	42
7	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	350	ART19	68
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
10	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
12	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	32
14	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
16	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
17	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
18	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
19	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
20	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
21	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
23	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
24	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
25	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
26	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
27	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
28	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
30	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
32	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
33	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	7	Libsyn	58
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
35	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
36	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
39	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
40	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
41	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
42	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
43	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1189	Acast	59
44	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
45	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
46	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
47	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
48	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
49	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
50	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
51	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
52	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
54	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
55	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
56	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
57	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
58	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
59	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	556	Spreaker	74
60	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
61	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
62	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
63	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
64	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
65	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	523	Spreaker	43
66	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
67	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
68	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
69	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	266	Megaphone	32
72	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	700	Omny Studio	53
73	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
74	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
75	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
76	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
77	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
78	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
79	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
80	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	636	Acast	69
81	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	491	RedCircle	43
82	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
83	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
84	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
85	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
86	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
87	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
88	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
89	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
90	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
91	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	482	Omny Studio	68
92	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
93	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
94	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
96	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
97	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
98	Sounds Like Hate	Southern Poverty Law Center	Society & Culture	27	Captivate	69
99	The Red Treehouse: Scary Stories to Keep You Up at Night	Will Soto	Society & Culture	288	Megaphone	72
100	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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