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 Dec 2025

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12/24/2025

Average data

Episodes: 182

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:44:20

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. audiochuck (2 shows)

3. TVO (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

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

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 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	26	RSS.com	58
3	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
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	414	Megaphone	63
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
12	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	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	444	Megaphone	32
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
20	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
22	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	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	105	Acast	79
25	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
26	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	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 Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
31	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
33	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
34	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
35	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
36	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
37	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
38	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
39	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
40	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	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	452	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	23	Buzzsprout	42
47	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	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	285	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	372	Omny Studio	73
55	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
56	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
57	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	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	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
62	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
63	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
64	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
65	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
66	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
67	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
68	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
69	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
70	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	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	583	Spreaker	74
75	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
76	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	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	Drama	13	BBC	53
79	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
80	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
81	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
82	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
83	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
84	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
85	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	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	68	Blubrry	49
90	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
91	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	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	1957	Omny Studio	42
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

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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