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 15 Aug 2025

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08/15/2025

Average data

Episodes: 198

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:48:09

Top 5 authors

1. BBC (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (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	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
7	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
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	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
15	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
16	Taylor Swift' and Travis Kelce	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	49
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
19	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
20	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
21	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
23	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
24	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
26	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
28	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
29	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	375	Audion	58
32	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	429	RedCircle	59
33	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
34	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
35	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
36	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
38	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
39	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
40	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
41	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
42	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
43	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
44	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
45	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
46	In The Wild	Narrative.fm	Society & Culture	157	Simplecast	63
47	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
48	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
49	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
50	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
52	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
53	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	102	BBC	38
58	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
59	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
60	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
61	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
62	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
63	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
64	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
65	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
66	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
67	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
68	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
69	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
70	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
71	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
72	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
73	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
74	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
75	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
77	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
78	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
79	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
80	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
81	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
82	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
83	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	566	Spreaker	74
84	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
85	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
86	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
87	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
88	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
89	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
90	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
91	Les Montréalistes	lesmontreallistes	Society & Culture	17	Podbean	63
92	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
93	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
94	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
95	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
96	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
97	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
98	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
99	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	128	Spotify for Podcasters	38
100	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

The podcast landscape in Canada is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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