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 19 Jul 2025

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07/19/2025

Average data

Episodes: 185

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:45:51

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

5. BBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Omny Studio (11 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 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	431	Megaphone	32
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
8	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
13	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
14	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
17	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
18	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
19	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
21	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
24	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
25	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
29	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
30	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
32	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
33	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
34	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
35	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
36	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
37	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
38	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
39	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
40	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
41	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
42	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
43	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
44	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
45	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
46	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
47	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
48	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
49	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
50	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
51	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
52	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
53	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
54	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
55	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
56	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
57	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
58	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
59	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
60	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
61	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
62	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
63	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
64	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
65	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - animé par Marina Orsini Details temporarily unavailable	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - Animé par Marina Orsini	Society & Culture	45	Audioboom	68
66	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
67	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
68	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
69	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
70	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
71	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
72	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
73	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
74	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
75	Queer Legends: An Oral History Podcast	Shawn Dearn	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
76	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
77	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
78	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
79	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
80	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
81	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
83	Geography Matters	Chris Hamnett	Society & Culture	28	Captivate	79
84	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
85	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
86	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
87	The Other Latif	WNYC Studios	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
88	The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior	RNZ	Society & Culture	7	Acast	58
89	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
90	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
91	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
92	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
93	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
94	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
95	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
96	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
97	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
98	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
99	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
100	香港電台︰香港歷史系列	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	0	Unknown	33

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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