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 nov. 2025

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11/19/2025

Average data

Episodes: 174

Frequency: every 246 days

Duration: 00:47:10

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	115	Spreaker	84
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	405	Megaphone	63
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
6	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	304	Megaphone	42
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	156	Acast	43
9	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
15	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
16	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
18	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	32
20	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
22	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
23	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
25	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
26	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
29	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
31	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
32	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	699	Megaphone	53
34	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
36	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
37	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
39	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
40	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1190	Acast	59
41	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
42	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
43	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
45	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
46	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	371	Audion	58
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
48	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	162	Spotify for Podcasters	28
49	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	88	Libsyn	62
53	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
54	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
56	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
57	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
58	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
59	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
60	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
61	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
62	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
63	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
64	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
65	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	48
66	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
67	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
68	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
69	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
70	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
71	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	638	Acast	69
72	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
73	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
74	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
75	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
76	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
77	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
78	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
79	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
80	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
81	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
82	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	400	Buzzsprout	83
83	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
84	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
85	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
86	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
87	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
88	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
89	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
90	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
91	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
92	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
93	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
94	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
95	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
96	Queer Legends: An Oral History Podcast	Shawn Dearn	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
97	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	70	Spreaker	43
98	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
99	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
100	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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