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 10 Jul 2025

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07/10/2025

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 46 days

Duration: 00:45:59

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (6 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

4. CBC (3 shows)

5. BBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. BBC (13 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
4	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
7	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
9	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
10	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
14	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
15	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
16	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
17	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
18	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
21	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
24	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
25	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
27	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
28	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
30	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
31	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
32	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
33	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
34	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
35	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
37	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
38	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
40	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	697	Megaphone	53
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
42	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	366	Audion	58
43	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
45	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
46	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
47	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
48	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
52	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
53	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
54	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
55	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
56	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
57	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
58	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
59	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
60	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
62	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
63	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
64	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
65	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
66	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
67	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
68	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
69	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
70	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
71	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
72	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
73	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
74	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
75	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
76	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
77	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
78	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
79	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
80	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
81	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
82	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
83	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
84	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
85	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
86	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
87	Escafandro	Rádio Escafandro	Society & Culture	205	Spotify for Podcasters	38
88	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
89	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
90	Les balados Énergir	Énergir	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
92	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
93	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
94	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
95	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
96	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
97	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
98	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
99	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
100	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59

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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