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 Aug 2025

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08/14/2025

Average data

Episodes: 219

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:47:34

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 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	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
3	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
6	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
14	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
15	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
16	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
17	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
20	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
21	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
22	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
23	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
25	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
26	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
27	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
28	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
29	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
30	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
31	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	431	RedCircle	59
32	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
33	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
34	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
35	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
36	Taylor Swift' and Travis Kelce	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	49
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
38	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
39	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
40	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
41	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
42	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
43	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
44	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
45	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
46	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
47	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
48	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
50	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
51	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
52	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
55	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
56	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
57	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
58	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
59	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
60	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
61	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
62	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
63	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
65	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
66	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
67	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
68	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
69	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
70	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
71	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
72	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
73	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
74	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
75	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
76	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
77	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
78	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
79	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
80	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
81	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
82	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
83	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
84	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
85	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
86	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
87	MyMaine Birth	Angela Laferriere	Documentary	124	N/A	N/A
88	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
89	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
90	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
91	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
92	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
93	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
94	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
95	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
96	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
97	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
98	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
99	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
100	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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