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 Nov 2025

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11/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 224

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:49:16

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. Louie Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (6 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	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
6	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
7	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
8	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
11	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
13	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
16	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
19	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
25	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
26	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
27	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
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
29	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
30	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
32	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
33	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
34	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
36	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
37	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
38	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
41	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
42	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
43	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
45	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
46	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
47	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
48	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
49	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
50	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
51	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
52	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
53	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
54	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
55	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
56	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
57	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
58	ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING	Big Theory Podcasts	Society & Culture	550	RedCircle	49
59	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
60	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
61	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
62	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
63	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
65	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
66	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
67	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
68	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
69	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	677	Acast	69
70	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
71	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
72	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
73	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
74	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
75	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
76	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
77	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
78	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
79	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
80	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
81	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
82	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
83	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
84	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
85	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
86	Avestruz Master	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	53
87	Les Montréalistes	lesmontreallistes	Society & Culture	17	Podbean	63
88	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
89	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
90	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
91	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
92	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
93	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
94	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
95	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
96	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
97	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
98	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
99	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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