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 Oct 2025

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10/15/2025

Average data

Episodes: 205

Frequency: every 249 days

Duration: 00:47:33

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
2	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
6	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
10	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
12	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
13	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
20	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
22	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
24	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
25	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
28	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
30	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
31	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
33	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
34	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
35	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
36	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
37	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
43	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
44	ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING	Big Theory Podcasts	Society & Culture	550	RedCircle	49
45	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
46	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
48	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
49	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
50	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
51	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
52	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
53	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
54	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
55	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
56	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
57	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
58	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
59	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
60	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
61	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
62	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
63	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
64	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
65	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
66	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
67	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
68	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
69	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
70	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
71	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
72	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
73	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
74	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
75	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
76	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
77	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
78	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
79	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
80	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
81	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
82	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
83	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
85	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
86	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
87	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
88	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
89	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
90	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
91	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
92	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
93	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
94	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
95	A Eleição Mais Louca de Sempre	Observador	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	63
96	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
97	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
98	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
99	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
100	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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