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 Sep 2025

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09/24/2025

Average data

Episodes: 189

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:47:36

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
2	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
3	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
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	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
14	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
18	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
19	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
20	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
23	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
25	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
26	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
27	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
28	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
29	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
31	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
32	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
33	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
34	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
35	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
36	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
37	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
38	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
39	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
40	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
41	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
43	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
44	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
45	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
46	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
47	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
48	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
49	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
50	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
51	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
52	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
53	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
54	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
55	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
56	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
57	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
58	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
59	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
60	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
61	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
62	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
63	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
64	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
65	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
66	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
67	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
68	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
69	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
70	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
71	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
72	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
73	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
74	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
75	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
76	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
77	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
78	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
79	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
80	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
81	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
82	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
83	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
84	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
85	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
86	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
87	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
88	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
89	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	78	Megaphone	62
90	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
91	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
92	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
93	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
94	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
95	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
96	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
97	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
98	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
99	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
100	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63

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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