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 22 Sep 2025

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09/22/2025

Average data

Episodes: 187

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:47:04

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. RTL (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
2	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
3	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
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	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
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	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
16	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
17	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
19	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
23	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
24	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
25	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
27	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
29	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
30	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
32	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
33	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
34	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
35	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
36	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
37	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
39	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
40	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
41	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
42	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
43	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
46	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
47	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
48	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
49	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
50	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
51	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
52	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
53	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
54	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
55	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
56	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
57	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
58	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
59	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
60	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
61	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
62	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
63	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
64	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
65	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
66	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
67	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
68	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
69	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
70	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
71	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
72	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
73	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
74	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
75	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
76	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
77	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
78	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
79	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
80	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
81	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
82	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
83	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
84	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
85	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
86	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
87	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
88	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
89	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
90	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
91	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
92	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
93	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
94	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
95	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74
96	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
97	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
98	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
99	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
100	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62

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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