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 Aug 2025

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08/23/2025

Average data

Episodes: 178

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:44:41

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
6	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
9	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
12	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
14	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
20	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
21	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
27	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
28	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
31	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
32	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
34	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
35	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	428	RedCircle	59
36	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
37	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
38	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	375	Audion	58
39	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
40	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
41	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
42	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
44	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
45	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
46	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
48	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
49	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
51	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
52	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
53	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
54	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
55	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	101	BBC	38
56	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
57	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
58	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
59	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
60	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
61	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
62	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
63	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
64	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
65	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
66	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
67	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
68	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
69	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
70	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
71	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
72	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
73	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	566	Spreaker	74
74	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
75	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
76	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
77	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
78	Taylor Swift' and Travis Kelce	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	49
79	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
80	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
81	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
82	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
83	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
84	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
85	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
86	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
87	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	646	Acast	69
88	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
89	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
90	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
91	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
92	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
93	Top Comment	BBC	News	99	BBC	48
94	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
95	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
96	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
97	Que História!	BBC Brasil	Society & Culture	40	BBC	33
98	Le dernier vol de Raymond Boulanger : Révélations	iHeartRadio	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
99	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
100	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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