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 Sep 2025

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09/03/2025

Average data

Episodes: 183

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:46:34

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. The New York Times (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	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	306	Megaphone	42
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
9	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
12	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
15	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
16	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
19	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
21	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
24	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
25	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
26	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
27	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
29	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
30	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
32	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
33	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
34	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
35	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
36	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
38	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
40	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
41	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
42	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
43	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
44	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
45	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
46	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
47	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
48	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
49	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
50	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	374	Audion	58
51	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	566	Spreaker	74
52	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
53	Top Comment	BBC	News	99	BBC	48
54	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
56	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
57	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
58	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
59	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
60	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
61	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
64	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
65	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
66	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
67	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
68	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
69	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
70	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
71	Taylor Swift' and Travis Kelce	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	49
72	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
73	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
74	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
75	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	645	Acast	69
76	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
77	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
78	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
79	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
80	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
81	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
82	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
83	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
84	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
85	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
86	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
87	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
88	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
89	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
90	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
91	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
92	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
93	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
94	Marshall Islands: After the Bomb Dropped	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	4	Omny Studio	48
95	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
96	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
97	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
98	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
100	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49

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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