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 Sep 2025

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09/06/2025

Average data

Episodes: 173

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:45:33

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
9	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
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	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
18	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
19	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
20	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
21	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
22	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
25	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
28	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
31	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
32	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
33	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
34	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
36	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
37	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
40	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
41	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
42	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
43	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
44	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
45	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
46	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
47	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
48	Her Audacity Podcast	Ceci Hendrickson & Nikki Knudson	Society & Culture	21	Podbean	52
49	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
50	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
51	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
52	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
53	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
54	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
55	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
57	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
58	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
59	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
60	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
61	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
62	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
63	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
64	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
65	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
66	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
67	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
68	Reflections	Accessible Media Inc.	Society & Culture	81	Simplecast	83
69	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
70	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
71	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
72	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
73	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
74	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
75	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
76	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
77	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
78	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
79	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
80	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
81	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
82	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
83	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
84	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
85	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
86	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
87	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	89	Buzzsprout	57
88	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
89	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
90	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
91	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
92	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
93	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
94	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
95	The Turning: Room of Mirrors	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	15	Omny Studio	68
96	The Disasterfield Show	Cole Fouillard	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	49
97	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
98	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
99	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
100	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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