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 Nov 2025

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11/04/2025

Average data

Episodes: 216

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:47:06

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
2	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
10	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
15	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
21	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
22	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
24	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
25	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
26	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
27	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
31	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
32	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
33	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
34	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
35	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
39	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
40	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
41	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
42	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
43	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
47	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
48	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
49	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
50	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
51	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
52	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
54	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
55	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
56	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
57	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
58	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
59	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
60	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
61	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
62	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
63	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
64	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
65	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
66	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
67	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
68	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
69	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
70	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
71	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
72	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
73	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
74	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
75	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
76	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
77	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
78	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
79	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
80	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
81	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
82	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
83	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
84	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
85	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
86	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
87	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
88	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
89	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
90	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
91	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
92	Witness: Sex, Lies and Streaming	news.com.au	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	89
93	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
94	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
95	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
96	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
97	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
98	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
99	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
100	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54

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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