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 09 Oct 2025

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10/09/2025

Average data

Episodes: 193

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:46:50

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. Louie Media (2 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 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	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
3	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
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	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
11	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
12	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
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	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
21	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
22	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
24	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
25	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
26	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
27	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
28	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
30	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
31	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
32	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
34	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
35	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
37	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
40	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
41	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
42	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
43	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
44	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
47	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
48	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
49	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
51	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
52	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
53	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
54	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
55	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
58	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
59	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
60	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
61	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
62	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
63	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
64	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
65	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
66	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
67	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
68	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
69	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
70	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
71	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
72	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
73	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
74	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
75	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
76	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
77	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
78	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
79	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
80	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
81	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
83	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
84	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
85	Milk Teeth	Milk Teeth	Society & Culture	3	Substack	49
86	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
87	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
88	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
89	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
90	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
91	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
92	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
93	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
94	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
95	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
96	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
97	Garde-Manger	QUB radio	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	63
98	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
99	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
100	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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