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 Nov 2025

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11/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 232

Frequency: every 237 days

Duration: 00:47:48

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	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 Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
15	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
16	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
21	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
23	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
24	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
25	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
26	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
31	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
32	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
34	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
35	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
36	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
37	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
38	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
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	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
41	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
42	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
44	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
45	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
46	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
47	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
48	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
50	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
51	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
52	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
53	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
54	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
55	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
56	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
57	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
58	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
59	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
60	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
61	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
62	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
63	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
64	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
65	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
66	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
67	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
68	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
71	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
72	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
73	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
74	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
75	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
76	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
77	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
78	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
79	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
80	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
81	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
82	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
83	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
84	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
85	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
86	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
87	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
88	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
89	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
90	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	677	Acast	69
91	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
92	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
93	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
94	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
95	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
96	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	586	Spreaker	74
97	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
98	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
99	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
100	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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