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 Aug 2025

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08/19/2025

Average data

Episodes: 188

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:47:04

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
7	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
8	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
12	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
13	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
16	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
17	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
22	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
23	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
24	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
26	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
27	In The Wild	Narrative.fm	Society & Culture	157	Simplecast	63
28	Taylor Swift' and Travis Kelce	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	49
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
30	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
31	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
34	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
35	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
36	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
37	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
39	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
40	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
41	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
42	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
46	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
47	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
48	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
49	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
50	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
51	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
52	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	431	RedCircle	59
53	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
54	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
55	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
56	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
57	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
58	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
59	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
60	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
61	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
62	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
63	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
64	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
65	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
66	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
67	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
68	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
69	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
70	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
71	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
72	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
73	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
74	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
75	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
76	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	SNAPPED: The Podcast	Lucy Taylor	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	73
79	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
80	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
81	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
82	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
83	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
84	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
85	Howard Stern - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	69
86	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
87	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
88	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
89	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
90	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
91	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	111	Ximalaya	59
92	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
93	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
94	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
95	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
96	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
97	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
98	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
99	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
100	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	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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