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 Dec 2025

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12/18/2025

Average data

Episodes: 161

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:45:54

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (17 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
2	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
10	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
12	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
13	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
15	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
19	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
20	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
21	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
22	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
23	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
24	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
30	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
32	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
33	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
36	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
37	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
39	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
40	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
41	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
42	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
43	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
44	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
45	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
46	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
47	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
48	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
49	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
52	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
54	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
55	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
57	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
58	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
59	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
60	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
61	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
62	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
63	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
64	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
65	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
66	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
67	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
68	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
69	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
70	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
71	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
72	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
73	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
74	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
75	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
76	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
77	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
78	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
79	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
80	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
81	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
82	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
83	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
84	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
85	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
86	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
87	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
88	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
89	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
90	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
91	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
92	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
93	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
94	JOURNEY	Ryan Wolf	Society & Culture	13	Acast	73
95	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
96	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
97	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
98	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
99	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
100	Career Profiles	BTR Boxing Podcast Network	Society & Culture	87	Megaphone	49

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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