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 23 Jul 2025

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07/23/2025

Average data

Episodes: 182

Frequency: every 248 days

Duration: 00:45:44

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. CBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. BBC (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
7	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
10	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
12	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
15	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
16	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
17	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
19	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
23	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
24	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
27	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
28	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
29	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
30	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
32	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
33	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
35	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
36	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
37	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
38	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
39	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
40	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
42	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
43	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
44	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
45	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
46	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
47	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
48	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
49	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
50	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
52	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
53	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
54	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
55	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
56	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
57	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
58	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
59	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
60	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
61	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
62	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
63	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
64	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
65	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
66	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
67	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
68	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
69	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
70	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
71	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
72	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
73	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
74	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
75	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
76	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
77	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
78	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
79	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
80	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
81	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
82	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
83	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
84	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
85	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
86	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
87	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
88	Mysteries van Vlaanderen	Radio 2	Society & Culture	86	Simplecast	68
89	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
90	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
91	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
92	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
93	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
94	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
95	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
96	Taboo Treasures	EVIO Creative	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	69
97	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
98	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
99	Laura Flanders and Friends: Solutions-Focused Progressive Perspectives on Politics, News, and Culture	Laura Flanders, Curious Communications	Society & Culture	846	Simplecast	63
100	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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