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 Nov 2025

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11/23/2025

Average data

Episodes: 205

Frequency: every 239 days

Duration: 00:47:14

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. RTL (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Simplecast (8 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	409	Megaphone	63
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
5	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	24	Spreaker	84
7	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	309	Megaphone	42
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
11	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	376	Audioboom	62
13	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
17	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
18	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
19	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
21	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	438	Megaphone	32
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
27	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	111	BBC	38
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	267	Spreaker	69
31	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
32	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	435	Acast	53
33	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
35	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
36	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
37	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
38	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
39	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
41	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1199	Acast	59
42	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	378	Audion	58
43	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	703	Megaphone	53
45	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
46	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
47	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
48	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
49	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
50	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
51	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
52	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
53	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
54	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
55	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
56	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
57	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
58	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
59	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
60	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
61	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	28
62	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
63	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
64	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
65	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
66	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
67	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
68	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
69	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
70	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
71	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
72	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
73	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
74	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
75	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	298	Audioboom	58
76	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
77	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
78	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
79	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
80	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
81	Somebody Must Say These Things	Podstarter	Society & Culture	17	Transistor	83
82	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
83	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
84	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
85	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
86	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
87	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
88	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	56	Audiomeans	73
89	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	446	Acast	74
90	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
91	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	82	Spreaker	43
92	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
93	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
94	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	527	Spreaker	43
95	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
96	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
97	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
98	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
99	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	89	Spotify for Podcasters	32
100	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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