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 Dec 2025

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12/03/2025

Average data

Episodes: 199

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:47:04

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Audible (2 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. BBC (8 shows)

4. Spreaker (7 shows)

5. Omny Studio (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	410	Megaphone	63
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
9	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	439	Megaphone	32
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	376	Audioboom	62
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
16	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
17	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
18	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	216	Megaphone	38
19	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	113	BBC	38
22	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
23	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
24	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
25	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
27	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
31	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
32	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
34	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
35	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	436	Acast	53
36	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
37	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
39	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
40	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
41	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
42	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
43	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
44	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
45	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	380	Audion	58
46	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
48	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1199	Acast	59
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
52	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
53	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
54	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
55	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
56	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
57	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
58	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
60	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
61	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
62	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
63	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
64	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
65	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
66	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	447	Acast	74
67	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
68	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
69	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
70	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
71	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
72	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
73	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
74	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
75	Mel Robbins - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	47	Spreaker	69
76	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
77	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
78	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
80	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
81	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
83	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
84	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
85	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
86	The Poison Detectives	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
87	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
88	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
89	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
90	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	125	Buzzsprout	53
91	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53
92	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
93	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
94	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
95	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
96	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	84	Spreaker	43
97	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
98	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	527	Spreaker	43
99	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
100	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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