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 25 Jul 2025

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07/25/2025

Average data

Episodes: 193

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:46:45

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (9 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	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	23	Spreaker	84
4	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	947	Simplecast	38
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	415	Megaphone	63
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	446	Megaphone	32
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	316	Megaphone	42
11	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	359	ART19	68
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
14	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
17	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
18	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	73
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	107	Acast	79
20	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	59	PRX	74
21	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	168	Acast	69
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	29	American Public Media	62
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	220	Megaphone	38
27	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
28	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
29	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
30	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	444	Acast	53
31	Top Comment	BBC	News	105	BBC	48
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
33	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
34	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
35	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
36	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	273	Spreaker	69
38	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
39	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
40	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	133	BBC	38
41	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	194	Ximalaya	53
42	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
43	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
44	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	286	Megaphone	43
46	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
47	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
48	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	454	Acast	74
49	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	53
50	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
51	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
52	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
54	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
55	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
56	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	48
57	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1210	Acast	59
58	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
59	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	53
60	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
61	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	27	RSS.com	58
62	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
63	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	374	Omny Studio	73
65	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	32	Podbean	41
66	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
69	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
70	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
71	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	95	Libsyn	62
72	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
73	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	390	Audion	58
74	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
75	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
76	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
77	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	711	Megaphone	53
78	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
79	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	464	RedCircle	59
80	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	589	Spreaker	74
81	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
82	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	215	Acast	79
83	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
84	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
85	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
86	That's What She Said! Vodcast	That's What She Said! Vodcast	Society & Culture	48	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	Deliver Us From Ervil	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	69
88	Les balados Énergir	Énergir	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
90	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	417	BBC	28
91	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
92	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
93	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
94	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
95	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
96	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
97	The Crip Trip Disability Podcast	Catapult Pictures	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	68
98	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	100	WideOrbit	68
99	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	69
100	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	24	Buzzsprout	42

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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