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 11 Aug 2025

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08/11/2025

Average data

Episodes: 194

Frequency: every 238 days

Duration: 00:43:15

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. The New York Times (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
2	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
3	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
9	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
15	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
17	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
19	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
20	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
21	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
23	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
24	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
25	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
26	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
27	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
28	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
29	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
31	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
32	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
33	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
34	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
35	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
36	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
37	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
38	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
39	Top Comment	BBC	News	104	BBC	48
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
41	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
43	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
44	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
45	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
47	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
48	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
49	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
52	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	458	RedCircle	59
53	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
54	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
55	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
56	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
57	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
58	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
60	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
61	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
62	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
63	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
64	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
65	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
66	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
69	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
70	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
71	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
72	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
73	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	32	Podbean	41
74	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
75	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
76	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
77	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
78	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
79	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
80	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
81	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
82	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	507	RedCircle	43
83	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
84	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
85	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
86	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
87	Better Human Project	Cole DaSilva	Society & Culture	686	Libsyn	53
88	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
89	True Stories with Seth Andrews	Seth Andrews	Society & Culture	448	Spreaker	53
90	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
91	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
93	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
94	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
95	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	66	Captivate	69
96	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
97	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
98	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
99	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
100	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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