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 Dec 2025

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12/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 190

Frequency: every 246 days

Duration: 00:44:51

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. audiochuck (2 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. The Telegraph (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Simplecast (8 shows)

4. BBC (6 shows)

5. Omny Studio (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
8	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
12	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
15	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
16	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
17	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
27	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
28	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
30	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
32	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
33	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
35	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
36	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
37	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
40	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
41	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
42	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
43	The Poison Detectives	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
44	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
45	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
46	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
47	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
48	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
49	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
50	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
51	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
52	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
53	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
56	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
57	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
58	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
59	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
61	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
62	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
63	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
64	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
65	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
66	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
67	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
68	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
69	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
70	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
71	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
72	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
73	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
74	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
75	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
76	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	111	Ximalaya	59
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
79	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
80	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
81	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
82	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
83	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
84	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
85	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
86	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
87	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
88	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
89	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
90	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
91	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
92	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
93	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
94	Rebel on Main	David Swartz	Society & Culture	9	Podbean	48
95	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
96	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
97	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
98	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
99	Mel Robbins - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	47	Spreaker	69
100	Transgression - My Search For the REAL Trans Agenda in Saskatchewan	Todd Rennebohm	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	38

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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