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 30 Aug 2025

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08/30/2025

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 246 days

Duration: 00:47:18

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Omny Studio (16 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Acast (16 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
2	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	309	Megaphone	42
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	24	Spreaker	84
6	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	376	Audioboom	62
7	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
8	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	409	Megaphone	63
11	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
12	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
13	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
14	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
15	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	438	Megaphone	32
17	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	571	Spreaker	74
18	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
19	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
21	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
23	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
25	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
26	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
27	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	435	Acast	53
29	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
31	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	439	RedCircle	59
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
33	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
34	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
35	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
36	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
37	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
38	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
39	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
40	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
41	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
42	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
43	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
44	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
45	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
46	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
47	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
48	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
49	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	267	Spreaker	69
51	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
53	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
54	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	111	BBC	38
55	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	656	Acast	69
56	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
57	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	208	Megaphone	32
58	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
59	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1199	Acast	59
60	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
61	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
62	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
63	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
64	Top Comment	BBC	News	101	BBC	48
65	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
66	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
67	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
68	Reveal Presents	Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting	Society & Culture	20	PRX	79
69	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
70	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	272	Megaphone	32
71	No me provoquen: Breaking the Palace	Sonoro	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	73
72	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
73	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
74	Taylor Swift' and Travis Kelce	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	49
75	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
76	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	703	Megaphone	53
77	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53
78	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	98	Omny Studio	89
79	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
80	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
81	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
82	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
83	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
84	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
85	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
86	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	73
87	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
88	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
89	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
90	Crumbs	My Cultura and Sonoro	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	79
91	Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle	The Christian Post	Society & Culture	39	Transistor	83
92	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
93	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
94	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	527	Spreaker	43
95	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
96	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
97	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
98	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
99	Dax Shepard - Audio Biography	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	59
100	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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