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 Aug 2025

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08/18/2025

Average data

Episodes: 193

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:45:57

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (8 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	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
8	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
9	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
15	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
16	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
17	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
20	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
24	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
25	In The Wild	Narrative.fm	Society & Culture	157	Simplecast	63
26	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
28	Taylor Swift' and Travis Kelce	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	49
29	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
30	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
32	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
33	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
34	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
35	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
36	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
37	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
38	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	431	RedCircle	59
39	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
40	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
41	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
42	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
43	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
45	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
46	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
47	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
48	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
49	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
50	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
51	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
52	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
53	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
54	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
55	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
56	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
57	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
58	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
59	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
60	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
61	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
62	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
63	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
64	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
65	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
66	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
67	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
68	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
69	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
70	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
71	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
72	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
73	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
74	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
75	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
76	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
77	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
78	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
79	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
80	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
81	SNAPPED: The Podcast	Lucy Taylor	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	73
82	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
83	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
84	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
85	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
86	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
88	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
89	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
90	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
91	Howard Stern - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	69
92	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	129	Spotify for Podcasters	38
93	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
94	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
95	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
96	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
97	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
98	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
99	True Stories with Seth Andrews	Seth Andrews	Society & Culture	448	Spreaker	53
100	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69

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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