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 Dec 2025

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12/09/2025

Average data

Episodes: 217

Frequency: every 234 days

Duration: 00:46:45

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Victor Galarreta (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Simplecast (8 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spreaker (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
11	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
14	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
15	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
17	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
23	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
24	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
26	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
29	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
31	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
32	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
34	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
35	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
37	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
38	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
39	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
40	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
41	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
42	L'Avenir nous le dira	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
45	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
46	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
47	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
48	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
49	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
50	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
51	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
52	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
53	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
54	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
56	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
57	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
59	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
60	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
61	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
63	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
65	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
66	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
67	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
68	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
69	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
70	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
71	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
72	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
73	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
74	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
75	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
76	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
77	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
78	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
79	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
80	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
81	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
82	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
83	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
84	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
85	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
86	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
87	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
88	The Other Latif	WNYC Studios	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
89	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
90	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
91	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
92	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
93	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
94	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
95	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
96	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
97	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
98	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
99	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
100	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

The podcast landscape in Canada is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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