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 Oct 2025

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10/08/2025

Average data

Episodes: 181

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:46:35

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 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	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
9	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
13	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
15	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
20	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
23	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
24	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
25	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
27	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
28	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
29	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
30	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
31	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
32	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
34	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
35	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
36	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
37	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
39	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
40	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
41	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
42	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
43	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
44	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
45	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
46	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
47	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
48	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
49	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
52	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
53	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
54	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
55	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
56	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
57	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
58	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
59	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
60	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
61	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
64	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
65	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
66	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
67	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
68	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
69	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
70	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
71	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
72	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
73	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
74	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
75	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
76	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
77	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
78	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
79	Milk Teeth	Milk Teeth	Society & Culture	3	Substack	49
80	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
81	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
82	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
83	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
84	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
85	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
86	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
87	The Corrymeela Podcast	Corrymeela	Society & Culture	43	Squarespace	58
88	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
89	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
90	Métis Speaker Series	Metis Nation British Columbia	Society & Culture	63	RedCircle	63
91	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
92	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
93	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
94	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
95	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
96	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
97	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
98	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
99	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
100	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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