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 Nov 2025

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11/02/2025

Average data

Episodes: 211

Frequency: every 239 days

Duration: 00:47:47

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. RTL (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 shows)

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

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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