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: 192

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:46:42

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. BBC (2 shows)

3. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Louie Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
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 Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
11	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
12	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	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	146	Megaphone	68
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
21	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
22	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
24	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
25	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
26	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
27	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
28	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
30	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
31	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
32	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
34	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
35	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
37	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
40	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
41	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
42	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
43	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
44	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
47	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
48	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
49	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
51	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
52	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
53	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
54	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
55	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	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	193	Ximalaya	53
58	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
59	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	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	34	Megaphone	48
62	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	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	58	Unknown	68
66	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
67	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
68	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
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	92	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	38	BBC	58
73	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	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	416	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	211	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	530	Spreaker	43
80	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
81	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	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	157	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	452	Acast	74
91	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
92	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	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	63	Libsyn	42
100	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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