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 27 Jul 2025

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07/27/2025

Average data

Episodes: 203

Frequency: every 249 days

Duration: 00:47:31

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (11 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Megaphone (11 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	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	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
15	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
16	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
19	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
20	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
21	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
24	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
27	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
30	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
31	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
34	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
35	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
36	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
37	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
38	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
39	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
40	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
41	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
42	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
43	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
46	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
47	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
48	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
49	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
50	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
51	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
52	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
53	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	48
54	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
56	Mémoires d'Augustines	Le Monastère des Augustines	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	63
57	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
58	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
59	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
60	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
61	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
62	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
63	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
64	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
65	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
66	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
69	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
70	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
71	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
72	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
73	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
74	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
75	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
76	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
77	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
78	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
79	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
80	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
81	Garde-Manger	QUB radio	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	63
82	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
83	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
84	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
85	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
86	Walking Radio	Patrick Corvyn	Society & Culture	6	Substack	59
87	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
88	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
89	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
90	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
91	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
92	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
93	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
94	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
95	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
96	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
97	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
98	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	128	Spotify for Podcasters	38
99	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
100	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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