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 13 Jul 2025

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07/13/2025

Average data

Episodes: 182

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:46:19

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	99	Acast	79
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	409	Megaphone	63
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
7	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
9	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	376	Audioboom	62
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
14	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
15	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
18	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
21	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
22	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
23	Top Comment	BBC	News	101	BBC	48
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
25	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
27	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	57	BBC	48
28	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	439	Megaphone	32
29	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	23	RSS.com	52
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
31	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
32	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
34	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
38	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
39	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
40	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	380	Audion	58
41	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	435	Acast	53
42	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
43	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53
44	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
45	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
46	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	440	RedCircle	59
47	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
48	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
49	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
50	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
51	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
52	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
54	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
55	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	112	BBC	38
56	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	414	BBC	28
57	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
58	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
59	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1199	Acast	59
60	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
61	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	446	Acast	74
62	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
63	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
64	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
65	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
67	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
68	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
69	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
70	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
71	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
72	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
73	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
74	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
75	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
76	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
77	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
78	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
79	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
80	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
81	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
82	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
83	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
84	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	499	RedCircle	43
85	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
86	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
87	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
88	La familia correcta	El País Audio / WePod	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	84
89	I Survived The Wild Outdoors	Brad Mathewson	Society & Culture	59	Acast	68
90	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
91	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
92	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
93	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
94	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
95	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
96	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
97	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
98	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
99	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
100	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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