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 Dec 2025

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12/10/2025

Average data

Episodes: 206

Frequency: every 237 days

Duration: 00:47:10

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. The Telegraph (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. Victor Galarreta (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 shows)

5. Spreaker (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
9	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
14	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
15	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
16	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
17	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
18	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
22	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
23	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
25	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
26	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
27	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
30	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
32	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
33	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
34	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
36	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
37	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
38	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
39	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
40	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
41	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
42	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
43	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
44	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
46	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
47	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
48	L'Avenir nous le dira	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
49	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
50	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
51	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
52	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
53	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
54	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
55	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
56	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
57	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
58	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
59	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
60	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
61	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
62	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
63	Leaked	TFLabs	Science	9	Megaphone	53
64	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
65	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
66	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
67	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
68	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
69	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
72	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
73	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
74	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
75	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
76	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
77	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
78	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
79	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
80	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
81	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
82	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
83	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
84	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
85	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
86	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
87	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
88	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
89	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
90	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
91	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
92	The Other Latif	WNYC Studios	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
93	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
94	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
95	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
96	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
97	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
98	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
99	Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	58
100	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	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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