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 08 Sep 2025

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09/08/2025

Average data

Episodes: 164

Frequency: every 251 days

Duration: 00:46:17

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. BBC (8 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 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	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
12	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
13	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
14	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
15	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
20	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
21	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
23	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
24	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
25	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
27	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
28	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
29	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
30	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
31	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
32	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
33	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
34	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
35	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
36	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
37	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
38	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
40	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
41	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
42	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
43	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	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	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
47	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
48	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
49	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
51	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
52	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
53	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
54	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
55	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
56	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
57	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
58	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
59	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
60	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
61	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
62	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
63	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
64	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
65	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
66	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
67	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
68	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
69	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
70	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
71	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
72	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
73	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
74	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
75	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
76	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
77	Her Audacity Podcast	Ceci Hendrickson & Nikki Knudson	Society & Culture	21	Podbean	52
78	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
79	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
80	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
81	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
82	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
83	The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight	Somethin' Else / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	26	Megaphone	83
84	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
85	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
86	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
87	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
88	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
89	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
90	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
91	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
92	Au voleur	QUB radio	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
93	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
94	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
95	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
96	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
97	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
98	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
99	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
100	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63

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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