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 Nov 2025

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11/09/2025

Average data

Episodes: 183

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:48:45

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (9 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	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
7	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
10	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
13	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
18	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
20	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
21	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
22	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
28	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
32	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
33	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
35	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
38	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
39	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
40	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
41	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
42	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
43	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
44	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
45	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
46	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
47	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
48	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
52	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
54	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
55	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
56	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
57	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
58	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
59	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
60	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
61	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
62	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
63	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
64	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
65	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
66	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
67	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
68	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
69	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
70	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
71	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
72	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
73	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
74	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
75	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
76	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
77	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
78	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
79	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
80	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
81	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
82	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
83	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
84	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
85	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
86	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
87	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
88	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
89	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
90	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
91	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
92	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
93	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
94	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
95	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
96	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
97	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
98	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
99	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
100	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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