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 16 Oct 2025

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10/16/2025

Average data

Episodes: 204

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:48:38

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. audiochuck (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (7 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 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	67	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
5	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
7	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
13	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
18	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
22	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
23	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
24	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
25	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
26	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
28	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
29	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
31	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
32	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
33	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
34	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
35	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
36	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
37	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
39	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	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
42	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
43	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
45	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
46	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
47	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
48	ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING	Big Theory Podcasts	Society & Culture	550	RedCircle	49
49	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
51	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	374	Audion	58
52	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
53	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
54	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
56	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
57	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
58	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
59	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
60	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
61	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
64	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
66	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
67	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
69	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
70	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
71	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
72	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
73	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
74	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
75	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
76	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
77	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan	Society & Culture	375	Blubrry Podcasting	43
79	Transgression - My Search For the REAL Trans Agenda in Saskatchewan	Todd Rennebohm	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	38
80	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
81	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
82	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
83	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	113	Megaphone	68
84	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
85	Haunted Homies	Bleav	Society & Culture	39	Simplecast	53
86	There is a List	Ricochet Media	Society & Culture	5	Podbean	53
87	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
88	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
89	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
90	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	430	Audioboom	48
91	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
92	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
93	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
94	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
95	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
96	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	645	Acast	69
97	Mel Robbins - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	47	Spreaker	69
98	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
99	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
100	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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