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 déc. 2025

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12/17/2025

Average data

Episodes: 202

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:46:00

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. CBC (2 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
17	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
20	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
21	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
22	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
23	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
26	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
29	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
33	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
34	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
35	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
36	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
37	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
38	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
39	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
40	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
41	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
42	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
43	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
46	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
47	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
48	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
50	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
51	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
52	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
53	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
55	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
56	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
57	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
58	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
59	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
60	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
61	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
62	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
63	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
64	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
65	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
67	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
68	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
69	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
70	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
71	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
72	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
73	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
74	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
75	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
76	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
77	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
78	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
79	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
80	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
81	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
82	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
83	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
84	Improbable	BBC Mundo	Society & Culture	10	BBC	39
85	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
86	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
87	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
88	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
89	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
90	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
91	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
92	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
93	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
94	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
95	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
96	JOURNEY	Ryan Wolf	Society & Culture	13	Acast	73
97	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
98	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
99	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
100	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89

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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