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 Dec 2025

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12/23/2025

Average data

Episodes: 188

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:46:03

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

2. The Telegraph (2 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
2	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
3	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
4	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
12	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
16	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
17	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
18	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
19	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
23	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
24	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
25	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
28	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
29	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
30	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
33	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
34	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
35	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
37	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
39	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
40	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
41	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
42	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
43	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
44	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
45	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
46	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
47	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
48	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
49	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
50	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
52	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
53	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
55	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
56	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
57	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
58	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
59	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
60	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
61	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
62	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
63	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
64	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
65	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
66	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
67	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
68	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
70	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
71	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
72	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
73	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
74	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
75	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
76	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
77	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
78	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
79	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
80	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
81	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
83	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
84	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
85	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
86	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
87	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
88	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
89	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
90	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
91	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
92	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
93	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
94	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
95	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
96	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
97	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	103	Acast	73
98	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
99	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
100	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59

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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