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 Nov 2025

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11/18/2025

Average data

Episodes: 210

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:47:13

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. BBC (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 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	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	412	Megaphone	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
7	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	312	Megaphone	42
9	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	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	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
15	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
18	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
19	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
20	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	123	BBC	38
22	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
23	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
26	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	441	Acast	53
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
30	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
31	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
32	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
33	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1204	Acast	59
34	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
35	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
36	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	384	Audion	58
37	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
39	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
40	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
41	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
42	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
43	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
45	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
46	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
47	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
48	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
49	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
50	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	171	Spotify for Podcasters	28
51	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
52	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
53	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
55	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
56	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
57	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
58	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
59	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
60	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
61	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
62	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
63	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
64	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
65	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
66	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
67	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
68	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	450	Acast	74
69	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
70	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
71	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
72	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
73	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
74	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
75	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
76	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
77	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
79	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
80	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
81	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
82	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
83	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
84	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
85	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
86	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
87	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
88	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
89	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
90	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
92	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
93	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
94	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	72	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
96	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
97	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
98	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
99	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
100	Prince Andrew - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	59

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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