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 Oct 2025

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10/24/2025

Average data

Episodes: 198

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:48:35

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
2	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
3	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
14	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
15	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
19	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
22	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
23	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
26	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
27	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
28	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
30	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
31	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
32	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
33	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
34	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
35	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
36	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
37	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
38	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
39	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
40	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
41	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
42	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
43	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	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
47	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
48	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
49	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
50	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
51	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
52	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
54	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
55	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
58	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
61	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
62	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
63	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING	Big Theory Podcasts	Society & Culture	550	RedCircle	49
65	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
66	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
67	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
68	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
69	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
70	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
71	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
72	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
73	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
74	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
75	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
76	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
77	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
78	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
79	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
80	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
81	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
83	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
84	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
85	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
86	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
87	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
88	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
89	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
90	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
91	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
92	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
93	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
94	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
95	Howard Stern - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	69
96	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
97	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
98	Milk Teeth	Milk Teeth	Society & Culture	3	Substack	49
99	Les Montréalistes	lesmontreallistes	Society & Culture	17	Podbean	63
100	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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