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 Dec 2025

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12/02/2025

Average data

Episodes: 176

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:46:49

Top 5 authors

1. BBC (2 shows)

2. The Telegraph (2 shows)

3. Canada's National Observer (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Simplecast (7 shows)

4. Spreaker (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
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	308	Megaphone	42
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
12	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
15	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
16	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
17	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
20	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
21	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
23	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
25	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
27	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
28	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	702	Megaphone	53
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
30	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
31	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	107	BBC	38
32	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
34	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	434	Acast	53
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
36	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
37	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
38	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
41	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
42	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
44	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
47	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
48	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	377	Audion	58
49	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
50	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
52	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
53	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1197	Acast	59
56	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
57	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
58	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
59	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
60	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
61	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
62	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
63	The Poison Detectives	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
65	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
66	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
67	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
68	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
69	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
70	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
71	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
72	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
73	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
74	Mel Robbins - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	47	Spreaker	69
75	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	167	Spotify for Podcasters	28
76	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
77	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
78	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
79	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
80	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
81	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	111	Ximalaya	59
82	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
83	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
84	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	125	Buzzsprout	53
85	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
86	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
87	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
88	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
89	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
90	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
91	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
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	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	78	Spreaker	43
94	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	445	Acast	74
95	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
96	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
97	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
98	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53
99	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
100	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63

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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