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 juil. 2025

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07/26/2025

Average data

Episodes: 211

Frequency: every 248 days

Duration: 00:46:31

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Wavland (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 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	489	Megaphone	63
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
13	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
14	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
17	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
19	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
20	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
25	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
26	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	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	162	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	211	Megaphone	38
33	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	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	188	PRX	79
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
37	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
39	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
40	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
41	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	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	91	Acast	52
46	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	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	188	Ximalaya	53
51	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	161	Spotify for Podcasters	28
52	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	697	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	439	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	279	Megaphone	43
58	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
59	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
60	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
61	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	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	155	Megaphone	63
66	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
67	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
68	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	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: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
72	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
73	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
74	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
75	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	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	366	Audion	58
81	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	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	410	BBC	28
85	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	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	680	Libsyn	53
91	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
92	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
93	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
94	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
95	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
96	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
97	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
98	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
99	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
100	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	491	RedCircle	43

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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