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 14 Jul 2025

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07/14/2025

Average data

Episodes: 188

Frequency: every 47 days

Duration: 00:44:58

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

4. CBC (4 shows)

5. BBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Omny Studio (12 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. BBC (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (9 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	93	Acast	79
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
6	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
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	115	Spreaker	84
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
14	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
17	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
18	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
21	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
23	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
24	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
25	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
26	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
27	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
28	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
31	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
32	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
33	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
34	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
35	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
38	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
40	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
41	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
43	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
45	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
47	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
48	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
49	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
50	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
51	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
52	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
53	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
54	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
55	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
56	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
57	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
58	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
59	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
60	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
61	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
62	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
63	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
64	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
65	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
66	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
67	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
68	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
69	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
70	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
71	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
72	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
73	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
74	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
75	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
76	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
77	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
78	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
79	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
80	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
81	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
82	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
83	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
85	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
86	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
87	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
88	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
89	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
90	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
91	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
92	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
93	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
94	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
95	Disaster Hour	Ian Terbovich and Olivia Scarano	Society & Culture	89	Spotify for Podcasters	53
96	The Other Latif	WNYC Studios	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
97	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
98	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
99	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
100	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49

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