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 04 Sep 2025

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09/04/2025

Average data

Episodes: 153

Frequency: every 246 days

Duration: 00:46:22

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Simplecast (11 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (6 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	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
8	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
11	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
18	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
19	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
21	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
23	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
25	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
28	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
30	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
31	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
32	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
34	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
35	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
36	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
37	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
38	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
41	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
42	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
43	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
44	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
45	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
46	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
47	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
48	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
49	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
50	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
52	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
54	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
55	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
56	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
57	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
58	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
59	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
60	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
61	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
62	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
63	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
64	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
65	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
66	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
67	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
68	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
69	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
70	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
71	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
72	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
73	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
74	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
75	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
76	Top Comment	BBC	News	99	BBC	48
77	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
78	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
79	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
80	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
81	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	565	Spreaker	74
82	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
83	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
84	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
85	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
86	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
87	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
88	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
89	No me provoquen: Breaking the Palace	Sonoro	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	73
90	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
91	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
92	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
93	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
94	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
95	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
97	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
98	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
99	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
100	Her Audacity Podcast	Ceci Hendrickson & Nikki Knudson	Society & Culture	21	Podbean	52

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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