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 17 Jul 2025

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07/17/2025

Average data

Episodes: 167

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:47:32

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. CBC (3 shows)

5. BBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
5	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
9	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
10	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
11	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
13	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
15	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
16	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
17	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
20	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
21	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
23	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
25	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
26	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
27	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
28	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
29	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
31	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
32	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
33	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
35	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
36	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
37	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
38	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
41	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
42	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
43	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
44	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
45	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
46	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
47	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
48	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
49	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
51	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
52	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
54	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
55	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
56	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
57	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
58	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
59	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
60	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
61	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
62	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
63	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
64	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	120	Simplecast	53
65	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
66	The Chilling Podcast	Little Fang Media	Society & Culture	29	Spreaker	43
67	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
68	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
69	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
70	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
71	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
72	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
73	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
74	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
75	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
76	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
77	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
78	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
79	The Other Latif	WNYC Studios	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
80	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
81	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
83	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
84	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
85	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
86	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
87	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
88	Stealing Superman	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
89	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
90	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
91	The National Archives Podcast Series	The National Archives	Society & Culture	549	Unknown	32
92	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
93	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
94	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
95	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
96	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
97	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
98	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
99	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
100	Taboo Treasures	EVIO Creative	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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