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 déc. 2025

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12/24/2025

Average data

Episodes: 181

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:44:13

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

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

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
2	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
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	489	Megaphone	63
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
12	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
14	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
20	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
22	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
23	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
25	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
26	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
27	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
28	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
29	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
31	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
33	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
34	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
35	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
36	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
37	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
38	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
39	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
40	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
41	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
42	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
43	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
44	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
45	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
46	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
47	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
48	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
49	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
50	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
52	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
53	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
56	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
57	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
58	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
59	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
60	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
61	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
62	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
63	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
64	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
65	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
66	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
67	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
68	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
69	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
70	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
71	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
72	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
73	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
74	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
75	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
76	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
77	Trial by Shelter: Speaking back to the war on the unhoused	Voices Collective	Society & Culture	4	Libsyn	58
78	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
79	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
80	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
81	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
82	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
83	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
84	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
85	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
86	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
87	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
88	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
89	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
90	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
91	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
92	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
93	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
94	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
95	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
96	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
97	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
98	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
99	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
100	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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