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 Dec 2025

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12/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 200

Frequency: every 235 days

Duration: 00:45:35

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Audible (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. Victor Galarreta (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. Spreaker (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
8	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
14	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
15	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
18	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
21	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
22	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
23	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
24	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	122	BBC	38
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
26	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
29	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
30	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
32	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	441	Acast	53
33	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
35	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
36	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
37	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
39	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
41	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
42	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
43	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1203	Acast	59
44	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
45	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	384	Audion	58
46	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
47	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
48	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
49	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
50	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
51	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
52	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
53	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
54	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	171	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
56	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
58	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
59	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
60	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
61	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
62	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
63	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
64	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	69
65	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
66	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
67	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
68	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
69	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
70	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
71	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
72	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
73	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
74	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
75	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	276	Megaphone	32
76	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
77	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
78	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
79	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
80	L'Avenir nous le dira	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
81	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
82	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
83	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
84	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
85	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	667	Acast	69
86	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
87	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
88	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
89	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	529	Spreaker	43
90	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
91	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
92	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
93	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
94	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
95	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	449	Acast	74
96	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	32
97	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
98	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	37	Octopus	59
99	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
100	Mel Robbins - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	47	Spreaker	69

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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