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 24 Aug 2025

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08/24/2025

Average data

Episodes: 175

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:46:28

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (8 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 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	307	Megaphone	42
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
8	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
9	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
11	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
15	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
17	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
18	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
21	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
23	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
26	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
27	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
28	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
30	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
32	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
33	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
34	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
35	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
36	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
37	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
38	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
41	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
42	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
44	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
45	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
47	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	431	RedCircle	59
48	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
49	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
50	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
51	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
52	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
53	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
54	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
55	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
56	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
57	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
58	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
60	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
61	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
62	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
63	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
64	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
65	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
66	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
67	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
68	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
69	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
70	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
71	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
72	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
73	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
74	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
75	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
76	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	78	Megaphone	62
77	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
78	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
79	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
80	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
81	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
82	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
83	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
84	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
85	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
86	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
87	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
88	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
89	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
90	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
91	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
92	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
93	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
94	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
95	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
96	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
97	DEADLY INTENT	Carman Carrion	Society & Culture	20	Buzzsprout	69
98	Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Erin Elizabeth Hynes of Pina Travels	Society & Culture	158	Audioboom	47
99	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74
100	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41

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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