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 Nov 2025

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11/16/2025

Average data

Episodes: 218

Frequency: every 246 days

Duration: 00:46:44

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Spreaker (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
11	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
14	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
18	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
19	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
20	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
21	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
23	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
24	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
25	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
27	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
28	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
31	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
32	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
33	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
34	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
35	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
36	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
40	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
41	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
42	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
45	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
46	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
47	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
48	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
49	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
50	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
51	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
52	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
53	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
54	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
55	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
57	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
58	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
59	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
60	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
61	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
62	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
63	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
64	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
65	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
66	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
67	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
68	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
69	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
70	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
71	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
72	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
73	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
74	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
75	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
76	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
77	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
78	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
79	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
80	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
81	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
82	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
83	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
84	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
85	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
86	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
87	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
88	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
89	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
90	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
91	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
92	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
93	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
94	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
95	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
96	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
97	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
98	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
99	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
100	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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