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 Oct 2025

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10/03/2025

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:45:07

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
2	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
3	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
4	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
10	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
13	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
14	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
15	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
16	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
18	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
21	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
24	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
25	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
26	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
27	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
28	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
31	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
32	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
33	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
35	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
36	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
37	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
38	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
39	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
40	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
41	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
42	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
43	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
44	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
45	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
46	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
48	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
49	Transgression - My Search For the REAL Trans Agenda in Saskatchewan	Todd Rennebohm	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	38
50	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
51	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
52	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
53	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
54	Les Montréalistes	lesmontreallistes	Society & Culture	17	Podbean	63
55	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
56	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
57	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
58	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
59	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
60	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
61	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
62	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
63	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
64	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
65	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
66	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
67	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
68	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
69	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
70	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
71	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
72	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
73	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
74	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
75	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
76	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
77	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
78	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
79	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
80	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
81	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
82	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
83	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
84	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
85	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
86	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
87	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
88	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
89	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
90	Más Allá del Rosa	Jessica Fernández	Society & Culture	234	Acast	79
91	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
92	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
93	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
94	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	89	Buzzsprout	57
95	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
96	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
97	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
98	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
99	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	8	Libsyn	52
100	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59

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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