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 Nov 2025

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11/30/2025

Average data

Episodes: 231

Frequency: every 243 days

Duration: 00:48:25

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. The New York Times (2 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Acast (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. PRX (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
3	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
7	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
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	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
11	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
12	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
14	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
15	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
16	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
17	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
18	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
19	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	8	Libsyn	52
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
23	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
25	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
26	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
27	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
28	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
33	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
34	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
35	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
36	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
37	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
39	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
43	Unclaimed	Ancestry	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	69
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
45	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
46	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
47	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
48	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
49	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
50	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
51	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
52	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
54	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
55	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
56	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	706	Omny Studio	53
57	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
58	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
59	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
60	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
61	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
62	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
63	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
64	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
65	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
66	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
67	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
68	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
69	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
70	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
71	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
72	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
73	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
74	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
75	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
76	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
77	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
78	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
79	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
80	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
81	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74
82	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
83	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
84	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
85	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
86	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
87	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
88	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
89	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
90	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
91	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
92	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
93	Rebel on Main	David Swartz	Society & Culture	9	Podbean	48
94	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
95	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
96	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
97	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
98	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
99	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
100	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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