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 Nov 2025

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11/08/2025

Average data

Episodes: 204

Frequency: every 238 days

Duration: 00:47:39

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. pepe&chema (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (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	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
6	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
8	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
17	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
19	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
20	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
22	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
29	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
31	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
34	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
35	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
36	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
37	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
38	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
39	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	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
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
42	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
43	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
44	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
45	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
46	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
47	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
48	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
49	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
50	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
51	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
52	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
53	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
54	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
55	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
56	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
57	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
58	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
59	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
60	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
61	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
62	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
63	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
64	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
65	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
66	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
67	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
68	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
71	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
72	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
73	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
74	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
75	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
76	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
77	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
78	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
79	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
80	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
81	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
82	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
83	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
84	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
85	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
86	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
87	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
88	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
89	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
90	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
91	Avestruz Master	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	53
92	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
93	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
94	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
95	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
96	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
97	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
98	The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight	Somethin' Else / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	26	Megaphone	83
99	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
100	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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