Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Canada

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Canada. 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 01 Aug 2025

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08/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 167

Frequency: every 250 days

Duration: 00:47:04

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. CBC (3 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (12 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. BBC (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (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 Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
10	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
14	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
15	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
16	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
18	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
21	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
23	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
24	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
25	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
30	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
31	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
33	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
36	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
37	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
38	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
39	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
40	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
41	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
42	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
43	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
45	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
46	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
48	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
49	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
50	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
51	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
54	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
55	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
56	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
57	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
58	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
59	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
60	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
61	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
63	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
64	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
65	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
66	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
67	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
68	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
69	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
70	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
71	Les Montréalistes	lesmontreallistes	Society & Culture	17	Podbean	63
72	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
73	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
74	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
75	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
76	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
77	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
78	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
79	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
80	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
81	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
82	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
83	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
84	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
85	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
86	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
87	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
88	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
90	I Survived The Wild Outdoors	Brad Mathewson	Society & Culture	59	Acast	68
91	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
92	Hey, That's Weird	Luc Frost	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
93	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
94	ColdFusion	Dagogo Altraide	Society & Culture	43	RSS.com	68
95	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
96	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
97	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
98	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
99	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
100	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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