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 Nov 2025

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11/17/2025

Average data

Episodes: 214

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:47:29

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (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	937	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
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	349	ART19	68
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
13	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
17	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
18	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
19	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
20	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
21	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
22	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
23	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
25	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
30	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
31	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
32	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
34	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
35	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
36	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
39	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
40	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
42	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
43	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
44	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
46	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
47	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
48	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
49	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
50	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
52	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
53	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
54	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
55	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
56	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
57	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
58	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
59	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
60	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
61	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
62	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
63	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
64	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
65	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
66	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
67	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
68	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
69	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
70	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
71	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
72	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
75	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
76	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
77	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
78	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
79	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
80	Encountering Evil	Katt Commander and Julio	Society & Culture	8	RSS.com	58
81	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
82	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
83	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
84	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
85	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
86	The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight	Somethin' Else / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	26	Megaphone	83
87	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
88	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
89	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
90	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
91	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
92	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
93	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
94	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
95	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
96	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
97	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
98	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
99	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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