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 Nov 2025

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11/28/2025

Average data

Episodes: 216

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:48:50

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

3. The New York Times (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Acast (13 shows)

4. PRX (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
7	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
9	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
11	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
12	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
13	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
14	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
16	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
17	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
18	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	8	Libsyn	52
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
20	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
21	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
24	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
26	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
27	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
28	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
29	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
32	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
34	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
35	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
36	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
38	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
39	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
41	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
42	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
43	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
44	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
45	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
46	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
47	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
49	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
50	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
51	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
52	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
55	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
56	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
57	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
58	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
59	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
60	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
61	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
62	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
63	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
64	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
65	Unclaimed	Ancestry	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	69
66	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
67	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
68	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
69	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
72	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
73	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	705	Omny Studio	53
74	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
75	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
76	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
77	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	567	Spreaker	74
78	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
79	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
80	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	648	Acast	69
81	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
82	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
83	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
84	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
85	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
86	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
87	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
88	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
89	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
90	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
91	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
92	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
93	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
94	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
95	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
96	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
97	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
98	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
99	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
100	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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