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 Nov 2025

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11/14/2025

Average data

Episodes: 222

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:45:59

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (10 shows)

5. Spreaker (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
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	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
12	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
13	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
16	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
20	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
21	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
23	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
27	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
28	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
29	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
30	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
31	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
33	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
35	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
37	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
41	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
42	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
43	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
44	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
45	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
46	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
47	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
49	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
50	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
51	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
52	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
53	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
54	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
55	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
56	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
57	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
58	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
59	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
60	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
61	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
63	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
64	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
65	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
66	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
67	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
68	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
69	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
70	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
71	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
72	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
73	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
74	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
75	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
76	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
77	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
78	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
79	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
80	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
81	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
82	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
83	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
84	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
85	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
86	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
87	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
88	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	89	Buzzsprout	57
89	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
90	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
91	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
92	Diggin' Oak Island	Dave McBride	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
93	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
94	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
95	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
96	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
97	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
98	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
99	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
100	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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