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 Nov 2025

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11/26/2025

Average data

Episodes: 194

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:45:45

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. audiochuck (2 shows)

3. RTL (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. Spreaker (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
12	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
14	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
17	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
18	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
19	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
26	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
30	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
31	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
32	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
33	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
35	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
36	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
37	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
39	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
40	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
41	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
42	The Poison Detectives	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
43	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
44	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
45	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
47	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
48	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
49	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
50	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
51	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
52	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
53	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
54	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
55	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
56	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
57	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
58	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
59	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
60	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
61	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
62	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
63	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
64	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
65	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
66	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
67	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
68	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
69	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
70	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
71	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
72	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
73	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
74	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
75	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
76	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
77	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
78	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
79	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
80	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
81	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
82	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
83	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
84	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
85	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
87	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
88	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
89	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
90	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
91	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
92	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
93	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
94	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
95	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
96	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
97	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
98	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
99	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
100	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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