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 Sep 2025

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09/27/2025

Average data

Episodes: 202

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:45:03

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. Louie Media (2 shows)

5. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
2	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
3	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
13	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
14	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
15	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
17	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
21	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
22	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
24	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
25	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
26	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
27	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
28	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
29	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
32	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
34	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
35	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
36	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
37	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
38	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
39	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
40	Gavin Newsom - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	67	Spreaker	59
41	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
42	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
43	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
45	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
46	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
47	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
48	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
51	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
52	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
53	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
54	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
55	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
56	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
57	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
58	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
59	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
60	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
61	Les Montréalistes	lesmontreallistes	Society & Culture	17	Podbean	63
62	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
63	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
64	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
65	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
66	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
69	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
70	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
71	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
72	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
73	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	78	Megaphone	62
74	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
75	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	8	Libsyn	52
76	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
77	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
78	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
79	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
80	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
81	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
82	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
83	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
84	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
85	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
86	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	202	Megaphone	53
87	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
88	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
89	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
90	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
91	Reflections	Accessible Media Inc.	Society & Culture	81	Simplecast	83
92	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
93	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
94	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
95	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
96	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
97	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
98	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
99	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
100	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64

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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