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 Sep 2025

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09/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 179

Frequency: every 248 days

Duration: 00:48:34

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. CBC (3 shows)

5. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
9	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
11	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
15	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
16	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
18	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
19	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
21	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
22	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
23	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
26	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
27	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
28	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
30	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
32	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
33	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
35	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
37	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
38	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
39	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
40	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
41	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
42	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
43	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
44	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
45	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
46	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
47	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	566	Spreaker	74
48	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
50	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
51	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
52	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	427	RedCircle	59
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	374	Audion	58
54	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
55	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
56	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
57	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
58	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
59	Top Comment	BBC	News	99	BBC	48
60	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - animé par Marina Orsini Details temporarily unavailable	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - Animé par Marina Orsini	Society & Culture	45	Audioboom	68
61	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
62	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
63	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
64	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
65	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
66	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
67	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
68	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
69	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
70	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
71	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
72	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
73	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
74	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
75	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
76	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
77	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
78	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
79	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
80	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
82	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
83	Taylor Swift' and Travis Kelce	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	49
84	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
85	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
86	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
87	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
88	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
89	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
90	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
91	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
92	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
93	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
95	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
96	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	49
97	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
98	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
99	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
100	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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