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 Sep 2025

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09/25/2025

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:46:05

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (6 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. Wavland (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
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	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
9	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
10	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
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	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
16	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
21	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
23	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
25	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
27	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
29	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
30	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
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	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
35	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
36	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
37	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
39	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
40	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
41	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
42	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
43	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
44	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
45	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
46	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
47	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
48	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
49	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
51	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
52	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
53	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
54	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
55	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
56	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
57	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
58	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
59	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
60	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
61	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
62	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
63	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
64	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
65	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
66	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
67	Gavin Newsom - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	67	Spreaker	59
68	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
69	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
70	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
71	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
72	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
73	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
74	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
75	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
76	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
77	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
78	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
79	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
80	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
81	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
82	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
83	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
84	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
85	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
86	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
87	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
88	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
89	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
90	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
91	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
92	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
93	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
94	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74
95	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
96	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
97	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
98	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
99	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
100	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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