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 03 Aug 2025

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08/03/2025

Average data

Episodes: 176

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:46:39

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (11 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
4	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
11	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
12	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
13	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
18	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
19	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
21	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
22	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
25	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
26	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
28	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
32	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
33	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
35	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
36	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
37	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	32	Podbean	41
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
39	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
40	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
41	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
42	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
43	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
44	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
45	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
46	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
48	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
49	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
50	Top Comment	BBC	News	103	BBC	48
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
53	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
54	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
55	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	456	RedCircle	59
56	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
57	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
58	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
59	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
60	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
61	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
62	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
63	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
64	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
65	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
66	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
67	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
69	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
70	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
71	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
72	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
73	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
74	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
75	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
76	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
77	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
78	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
79	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
80	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
81	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
82	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
83	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
84	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
85	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
86	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
87	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
88	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
89	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
90	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
91	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
93	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
94	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
95	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
96	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
97	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
98	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
99	Hey, That's Weird	Luc Frost	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
100	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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