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 Oct 2025

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10/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 207

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:47:49

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. The New York Times (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
2	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
3	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
4	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
12	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
14	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
17	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
18	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
21	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
23	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
25	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
27	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
28	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
30	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
31	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
32	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
33	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
34	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
35	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
37	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
40	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
41	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
42	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
43	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
44	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
45	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	12	Libsyn	62
46	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
47	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
48	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
49	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
50	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
51	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
52	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
53	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
55	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
56	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
57	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
59	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
60	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
61	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
62	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
63	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
64	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
65	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
66	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
67	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
68	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
71	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
72	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
73	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
74	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
75	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
76	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
77	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
78	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
79	Les Montréalistes	lesmontreallistes	Society & Culture	17	Podbean	63
80	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
81	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
82	Heroes Behind Headlines	Heroes Behind Headlines	Society & Culture	199	Buzzsprout	58
83	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
84	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	160	Libsyn	72
85	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
86	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
87	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
88	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
89	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
90	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
91	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
92	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
93	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
94	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
95	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
96	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
97	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
98	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
99	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
100	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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