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 28 Jul 2025

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07/28/2025

Average data

Episodes: 225

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:49:19

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. The New York Times (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (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	408	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1010	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
5	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
7	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
8	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
9	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
10	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
11	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
14	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	222	Acast	79
16	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
18	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
19	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	60	BBC	48
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
21	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
22	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
23	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
24	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
25	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
28	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	231	PRX	79
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	103	BBC	53
30	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	431	RedCircle	59
31	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
33	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
34	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
35	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
36	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
37	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
39	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	979	Megaphone	52
40	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
41	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
42	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
43	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
44	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
45	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	174	BBC	38
47	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
48	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
49	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
50	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
51	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
52	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
53	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
54	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	42
55	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	174	Unknown	83
56	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
57	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
58	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
59	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
60	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
61	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
62	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
63	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
65	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
66	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
67	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74
68	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
69	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
70	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
71	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
72	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
73	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	372	Megaphone	43
74	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
75	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
76	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
77	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
78	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	42	BBC	58
79	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
80	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
81	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1073	Acast	69
82	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
83	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
84	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
85	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
86	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
87	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
88	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
89	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
90	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	825	Megaphone	53
91	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
92	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
93	Appalachian Spooky Hour	Sam Arthurs	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	53
94	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
95	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
96	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
97	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
98	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
99	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
100	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	32	Spotify for Podcasters	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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