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 26 Jul 2025

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07/26/2025

Average data

Episodes: 212

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:46:14

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. Wavland (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 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	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
5	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
13	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
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	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
19	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
20	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
25	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
26	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
30	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
31	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
33	Top Comment	BBC	News	104	BBC	48
34	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
37	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
39	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
40	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
41	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
42	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
46	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
47	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
48	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
49	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
50	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
51	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
52	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
53	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
54	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
55	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
56	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
57	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
58	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
59	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
60	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
61	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
62	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
63	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
64	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
65	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
66	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
67	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
68	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	458	RedCircle	59
69	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
70	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
71	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
72	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
73	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
74	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
75	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
76	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
77	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
78	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
79	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
80	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
81	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
82	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
83	Garde-Manger	QUB radio	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	63
84	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
85	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
86	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
87	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
88	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
89	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
90	Better Human Project	Cole DaSilva	Society & Culture	686	Libsyn	53
91	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
92	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
93	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
94	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
95	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
96	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
97	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
98	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
99	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
100	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	507	RedCircle	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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