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 18 Jul 2025

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07/18/2025

Average data

Episodes: 218

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:47:21

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. BBC (11 shows)

5. Simplecast (9 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	443	Megaphone	32
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
6	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
9	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
13	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
14	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
16	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
17	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
18	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
23	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
24	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
25	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
26	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
27	Top Comment	BBC	News	103	BBC	48
28	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
29	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
30	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
33	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
34	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
35	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
36	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
38	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	32	Podbean	41
39	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
41	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
42	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
43	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	456	RedCircle	59
46	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
47	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
48	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
49	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
50	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
51	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
52	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
53	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
54	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
55	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
56	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
57	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
58	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
59	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
60	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
61	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
62	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
63	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
64	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
65	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
66	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
67	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
68	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
69	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
70	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
71	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
72	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
73	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
74	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
75	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
76	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
77	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	674	Acast	69
78	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
79	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
80	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
81	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	580	Spreaker	74
82	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
83	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
84	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
85	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
86	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	130	Spotify for Podcasters	38
87	The Experiment	The Atlantic and WNYC Studios	Society & Culture	60	Simplecast	73
88	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
89	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
90	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
91	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
92	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
93	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
94	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
95	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
96	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
97	The Chilling Podcast	Little Fang Media	Society & Culture	29	Spreaker	43
98	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
99	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
100	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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