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 Oct 2025

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10/06/2025

Average data

Episodes: 194

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:46:39

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
2	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
5	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
11	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
15	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
16	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
17	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
19	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
20	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
23	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
25	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
26	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
27	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
28	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
29	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
31	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
33	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
34	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
35	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
36	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
41	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
43	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
44	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
45	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
46	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
47	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
48	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
49	Transgression - My Search For the REAL Trans Agenda in Saskatchewan	Todd Rennebohm	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	38
50	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
51	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
52	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
54	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
55	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
56	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
57	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
58	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
59	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
60	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
61	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
62	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
63	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
64	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
65	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
66	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
67	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
68	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
69	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
70	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
71	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
72	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
73	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
74	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
75	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
76	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
77	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
78	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
79	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
80	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
81	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
82	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
83	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
84	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
85	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
86	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
87	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
88	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
89	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
90	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
91	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
92	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
93	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
94	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
95	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
96	Más Allá del Rosa	Jessica Fernández	Society & Culture	234	Acast	79
97	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
98	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
99	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
100	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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