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 Sep 2025

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09/17/2025

Average data

Episodes: 219

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:47:22

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (10 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
2	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
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	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
15	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
16	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
18	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
20	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
21	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
22	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
25	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
26	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
27	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
29	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
31	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
32	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
33	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
36	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
37	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
38	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
39	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
40	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
41	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
42	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
43	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
44	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
45	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
46	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
47	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
48	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
49	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
50	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
51	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
52	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
53	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
54	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
55	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
56	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
57	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
58	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
59	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
60	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
61	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
62	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
63	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
64	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
65	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
66	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74
67	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
68	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
69	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
70	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
71	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
72	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
73	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
74	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
75	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
76	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
77	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
78	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
79	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
80	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
81	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
82	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
83	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
84	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
85	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
86	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
87	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
88	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
89	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
90	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
91	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
92	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
93	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
94	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
95	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
96	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
97	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
98	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
99	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	202	Megaphone	53
100	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63

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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