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 Oct 2025

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10/22/2025

Average data

Episodes: 200

Frequency: every 236 days

Duration: 00:48:42

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
2	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
3	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
6	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
12	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
13	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
16	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
17	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
23	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
24	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
26	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
27	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
29	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
30	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
31	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
32	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
36	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
37	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
39	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
40	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
41	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
42	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
44	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
45	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
46	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
47	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
48	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
49	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
50	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
52	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
55	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
56	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
57	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
58	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
59	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
60	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
61	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
64	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
65	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
66	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
67	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
68	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
69	ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING	Big Theory Podcasts	Society & Culture	550	RedCircle	49
70	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
71	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
72	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
73	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
74	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
75	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
76	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
78	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
79	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
80	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
81	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
82	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
83	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
84	Milk Teeth	Milk Teeth	Society & Culture	3	Substack	49
85	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
86	Transgression - My Search For the REAL Trans Agenda in Saskatchewan	Todd Rennebohm	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	38
87	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
88	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
89	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
90	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
91	Howard Stern - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	113	Megaphone	63
92	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
93	Zero Signal	David & Jay Green	Society & Culture	32	RSS.com	83
94	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
95	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
96	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
97	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	32	Podbean	41
98	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
99	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
100	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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