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 Dec 2025

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12/26/2025

Average data

Episodes: 184

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:45:00

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
11	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
12	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
15	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
16	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
19	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
20	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
22	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
23	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
24	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
25	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
26	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
27	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
28	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
29	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
30	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
31	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
32	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
33	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
34	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
36	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
40	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
41	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
42	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
43	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
44	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
45	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
46	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
47	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
48	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
49	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
50	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
51	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
53	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
54	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
55	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
56	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
57	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
58	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
59	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
60	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
61	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
63	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
64	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
65	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
66	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
67	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
68	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
69	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
70	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
73	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
74	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
75	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
76	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
77	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
78	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
79	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
80	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
81	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
82	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
83	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
84	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
85	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
86	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
87	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
88	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
89	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
90	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
91	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
92	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
93	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
94	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
95	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
96	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
97	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
98	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
99	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
100	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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