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 05 Sep 2025

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09/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 162

Frequency: every 46 days

Duration: 00:45:05

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. CBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Simplecast (11 shows)

4. BBC (10 shows)

5. Omny Studio (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
2	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
8	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
9	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
11	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
17	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
20	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
23	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
28	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
32	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
34	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
35	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
36	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
38	Her Audacity Podcast	Ceci Hendrickson & Nikki Knudson	Society & Culture	21	Podbean	52
39	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
40	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
41	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
42	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
43	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
44	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
45	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
48	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
49	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
50	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
51	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
52	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
53	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
54	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
56	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
57	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
58	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
59	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
60	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
61	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
62	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
63	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
64	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
65	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
66	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
67	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
68	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
69	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
70	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
71	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
72	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
73	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
74	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
75	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
76	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
77	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
78	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
79	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
80	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
81	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
82	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
83	No me provoquen: Breaking the Palace	Sonoro	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	73
84	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
85	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
86	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
87	Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez	Sonoro \| Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	43
88	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
89	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
90	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
91	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
92	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
93	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
94	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
96	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
97	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
98	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
99	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
100	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41

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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