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 06 Aug 2025

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08/06/2025

Average data

Episodes: 174

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:46:06

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (6 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	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
3	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	409	Megaphone	63
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
10	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	376	Audioboom	62
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	439	Megaphone	32
13	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
14	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
16	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
19	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
21	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
22	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
24	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
27	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
28	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
29	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
32	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	446	Acast	74
34	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
35	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	23	RSS.com	52
36	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
39	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	435	Acast	53
41	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
42	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
44	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
45	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
46	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
47	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	380	Audion	58
48	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
49	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
50	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	112	BBC	38
51	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
53	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
54	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
55	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
56	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
57	Top Comment	BBC	News	101	BBC	48
58	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
59	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
60	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
61	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
62	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
63	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
64	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
65	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
66	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
69	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
70	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
71	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
72	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
73	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1199	Acast	59
74	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
75	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
76	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
77	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
78	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
79	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
80	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
81	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
82	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
83	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	440	RedCircle	59
84	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	129	Spotify for Podcasters	38
85	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
86	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
87	I Survived The Wild Outdoors	Brad Mathewson	Society & Culture	59	Acast	68
88	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
89	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
91	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	414	BBC	28
92	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
93	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
94	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53
95	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
96	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	657	Acast	69
97	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
98	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
99	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
100	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	28

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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