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 Dec 2025

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12/13/2025

Average data

Episodes: 183

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:44:12

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Al Jazeera Network (2 shows)

3. Victor Galarreta (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Spreaker (9 shows)

5. BBC (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
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 Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
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	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
21	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
24	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
25	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
29	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
30	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
33	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
35	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
36	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
37	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
38	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
39	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
40	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
42	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
43	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
44	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
45	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
46	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
47	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
48	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
49	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
50	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
51	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
52	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
53	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
54	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
55	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
58	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
60	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
61	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
62	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
63	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
64	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
65	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
66	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
67	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
68	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
69	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
70	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
71	L'Avenir nous le dira	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
72	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
73	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
74	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
75	Mark Rober - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	69
76	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
77	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
78	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
79	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
80	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - animé par Marina Orsini Details temporarily unavailable	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - Animé par Marina Orsini	Society & Culture	45	Audioboom	68
81	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
82	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
83	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
84	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
85	It's Blanko's Show	It's Blanko	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	63
86	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
87	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
88	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
89	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
90	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
91	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
92	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
93	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
94	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
95	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
96	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
97	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
98	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
99	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
100	The Cows Are Mad	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	39

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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