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 oct. 2025

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10/17/2025

Average data

Episodes: 232

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:48:06

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
8	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
13	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
14	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
19	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
20	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
23	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
24	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
25	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
27	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
28	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
29	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
30	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
33	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
34	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
40	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
41	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
42	ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING	Big Theory Podcasts	Society & Culture	550	RedCircle	49
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
44	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
45	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
46	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
47	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
48	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
49	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
50	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
51	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
52	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
53	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
54	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
55	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
57	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
59	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
60	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
64	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
65	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
66	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
67	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
68	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
69	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
70	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
71	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
72	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
73	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
74	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
75	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
76	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
77	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
78	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
79	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
80	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
81	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
82	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
83	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
84	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
85	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
86	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
87	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
88	Life Of A Radio Girl	Radio Girl	Society & Culture	2	Transistor	53
89	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
90	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
91	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
92	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
93	JOURNEY	Ryan Wolf	Society & Culture	13	Acast	73
94	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
95	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
96	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
97	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
98	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
99	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
100	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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