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 Dec 2025

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12/19/2025

Average data

Episodes: 161

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:45:28

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (16 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 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	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	115	Spreaker	84
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
10	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
13	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
15	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
16	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
20	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
21	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
24	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
25	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
28	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
30	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
32	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
33	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
34	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
35	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
36	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
37	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
38	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
39	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
41	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
43	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
44	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
46	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
47	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
48	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
50	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
51	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
52	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
53	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
54	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
55	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
56	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
57	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
58	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
59	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
60	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
61	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
62	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
63	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
64	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
65	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
66	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
67	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
68	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
69	Mark Rober - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	69
70	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
71	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
72	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
73	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
74	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
75	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
76	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	120	Simplecast	53
77	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
78	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
79	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
80	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
81	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
82	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
84	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
85	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
86	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
87	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
88	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
89	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
90	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
91	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
92	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
93	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
94	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
95	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
96	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
97	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
98	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
99	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
100	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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