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 Sep 2025

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09/07/2025

Average data

Episodes: 176

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:45:28

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. BBC (8 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	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	946	Simplecast	38
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	315	Megaphone	42
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	23	Spreaker	84
9	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
11	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	359	ART19	68
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
15	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
16	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	445	Megaphone	32
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
19	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
20	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
21	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
23	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
25	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
27	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
28	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	220	Megaphone	38
30	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	710	Megaphone	53
31	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
32	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
33	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
34	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
35	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	168	Acast	69
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	272	Spreaker	69
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	133	BBC	38
40	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	389	Audion	58
41	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
42	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	444	Acast	53
43	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	73
44	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
45	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
46	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
47	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	286	Megaphone	43
49	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1209	Acast	59
50	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
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	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	95	Libsyn	62
54	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
55	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
56	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
57	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	215	Acast	79
58	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
59	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
60	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	53
61	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
63	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
64	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
65	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
66	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	48
67	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	53
68	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	453	Acast	74
69	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
70	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	31	Acast	83
71	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
72	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
73	Her Audacity Podcast	Ceci Hendrickson & Nikki Knudson	Society & Culture	21	Podbean	52
74	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	679	Acast	69
75	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
76	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
77	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
78	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	92	Megaphone	58
79	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
80	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
81	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
82	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
83	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
84	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
85	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
86	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
87	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
88	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	374	Omny Studio	73
89	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	507	RedCircle	43
90	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
91	Split Screen: There Goes My Childhood	CBC	TV & Film	31	Triton Digital	58
92	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	194	Ximalaya	53
93	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
94	The Disasterfield Show	Cole Fouillard	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	49
95	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
96	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	176	Spotify for Podcasters	28
97	Au voleur	QUB radio	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
98	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	82	Megaphone	62
99	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	588	Spreaker	74
100	Reflections	Accessible Media Inc.	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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