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 02 Sep 2025

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09/02/2025

Average data

Episodes: 183

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:46:48

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

5. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	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	310	Megaphone	42
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
9	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
11	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
13	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
17	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
19	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
20	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
21	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
23	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
24	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
28	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
29	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
30	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
31	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
32	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
33	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
35	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
36	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
37	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
38	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
39	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
40	Top Comment	BBC	News	102	BBC	48
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
42	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
43	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
44	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
45	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
46	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	170	Spotify for Podcasters	28
47	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
48	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	381	Audion	58
49	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
50	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
52	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	438	Acast	53
53	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
54	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
55	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
56	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
57	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
58	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
59	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
60	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	573	Spreaker	74
61	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
62	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
63	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	99	Omny Studio	89
65	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
66	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
67	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
68	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	209	Megaphone	32
69	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
70	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
71	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
72	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
73	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
74	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	57	Audiomeans	73
75	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
76	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
77	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
78	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
79	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
80	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
81	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
82	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
83	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
84	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
85	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
87	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
88	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
89	Howl	Boise State Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	54
90	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
91	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
92	Ivanka Trump - Living Bio	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	54	Spreaker	59
93	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
94	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
95	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
96	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
97	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
98	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
99	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
100	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

The podcast landscape in Canada is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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