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 20 Sep 2025

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09/20/2025

Average data

Episodes: 176

Frequency: every 241 days

Duration: 00:48:47

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
2	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
3	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
15	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
18	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
20	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
23	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
25	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
27	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
29	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
30	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
31	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
33	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
34	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
35	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
36	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
37	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
38	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
39	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
41	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
42	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
43	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
44	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
45	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
46	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
47	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
48	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
49	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
50	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
51	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
52	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
53	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
54	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
55	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
56	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
57	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
58	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
59	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
60	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
61	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
62	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
63	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
64	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
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	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
67	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
68	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
69	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
70	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
71	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
72	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
73	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
74	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
75	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
76	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
77	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
78	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
79	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
80	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
81	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
82	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
83	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
84	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
85	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
86	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
87	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
88	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	70	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	Reflections	Accessible Media Inc.	Society & Culture	81	Simplecast	83
90	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
91	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
92	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
93	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
94	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
95	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
96	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
97	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
98	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74
99	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
100	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	111	Ximalaya	59

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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