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 Oct 2025

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10/26/2025

Average data

Episodes: 208

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:44:33

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

4. RTL (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
6	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
8	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
10	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
14	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
15	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
16	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
20	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
21	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
25	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
26	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
27	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
28	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
30	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
33	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
34	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
35	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
36	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
37	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
38	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
39	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
41	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
42	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
44	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
45	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
46	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
47	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
48	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
49	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
50	ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING	Big Theory Podcasts	Society & Culture	550	RedCircle	49
51	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
52	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
53	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
55	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
58	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
59	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
60	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - animé par Marina Orsini Details temporarily unavailable	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - Animé par Marina Orsini	Society & Culture	45	Audioboom	68
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
62	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
63	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
64	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
65	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
66	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
67	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
69	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
70	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	676	Acast	69
71	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
72	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
73	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
74	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
75	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
76	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
77	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
78	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
79	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
80	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
81	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
82	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
83	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
84	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
85	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
86	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
87	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	713	Omny Studio	53
88	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
89	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
90	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
91	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
92	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
93	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
94	Howard Stern - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	113	Megaphone	63
95	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
96	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
97	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
98	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
99	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
100	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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