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 07 Aug 2025

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08/07/2025

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:45:34

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
6	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
12	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
20	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
21	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
22	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
24	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
26	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
27	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
28	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
30	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
31	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
33	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
34	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
35	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
36	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
37	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
39	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
40	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
41	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
42	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
44	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
45	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
46	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
47	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
48	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
49	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
51	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
52	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
53	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
54	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
56	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
57	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
58	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
59	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
60	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
61	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
62	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
63	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
64	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
65	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
66	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
67	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
68	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
69	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
70	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
71	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
72	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
73	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
74	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
75	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
76	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
77	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
78	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
79	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
80	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
81	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
82	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
83	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
84	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
85	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
86	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
87	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
88	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
89	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
91	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
92	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
93	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
94	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
95	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
96	Audio \| InSight Crime	InSight Crime	Society & Culture	116	Spotify for Podcasters	53
97	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
98	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
99	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
100	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68

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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