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 déc. 2025

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12/25/2025

Average data

Episodes: 188

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:46:31

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. CBC (2 shows)

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

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (6 shows)

5. BBC (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	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
4	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
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	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
10	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
11	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
12	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
16	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
20	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
21	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
23	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
26	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
28	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
29	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
30	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
31	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
32	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
36	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
37	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
38	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
39	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
40	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
41	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
42	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
45	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
46	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
48	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
49	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
50	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
51	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
52	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
54	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
55	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
56	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
57	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
58	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
59	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
60	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
61	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
62	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
63	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
64	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
65	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
66	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
67	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
68	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
69	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
70	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
71	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
72	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
73	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
74	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
75	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
76	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
77	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
78	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
79	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
80	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
81	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
82	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
83	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
84	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
85	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
86	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
87	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
88	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
89	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
90	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
91	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
92	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
93	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
94	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
95	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
96	Trial by Shelter: Speaking back to the war on the unhoused	Voices Collective	Society & Culture	4	Libsyn	58
97	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
98	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
99	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
100	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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