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 Nov 2025

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11/20/2025

Average data

Episodes: 193

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:47:52

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (7 shows)

4. BBC (7 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	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
4	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
5	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
11	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
15	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
17	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
19	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
20	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
21	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
22	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	105	BBC	38
23	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
24	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
32	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
33	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
34	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
35	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	702	Megaphone	53
38	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
40	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
41	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
42	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
43	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
44	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
45	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
48	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
49	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
50	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
52	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
53	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
54	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
55	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
56	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
57	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
58	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
59	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
60	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
61	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
62	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
63	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
64	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
65	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
66	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
67	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	377	Audion	58
68	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
69	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
70	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
71	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
72	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
73	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	650	Acast	69
74	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
75	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
76	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
77	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
78	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
79	True Stories with Seth Andrews	Seth Andrews	Society & Culture	448	Spreaker	53
80	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
81	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
82	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
83	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
84	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
85	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
86	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
87	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
88	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
89	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
90	Avestruz Master	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	53
91	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
92	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
93	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
94	Transgression - My Search For the REAL Trans Agenda in Saskatchewan	Todd Rennebohm	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	38
95	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
96	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
97	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
98	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	125	Simplecast	53
99	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
100	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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