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 Oct 2025

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10/27/2025

Average data

Episodes: 223

Frequency: every 252 days

Duration: 00:46:57

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (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	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
7	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
10	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
15	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
16	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
19	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
21	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
25	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
26	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
28	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
29	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
33	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
34	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
35	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
36	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
37	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
39	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
41	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
42	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
44	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
45	ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING	Big Theory Podcasts	Society & Culture	550	RedCircle	49
46	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
47	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
48	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
49	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
50	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
51	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
52	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
53	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
54	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
56	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
57	The Corrymeela Podcast	Corrymeela	Society & Culture	43	Squarespace	58
58	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
59	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
60	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
61	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
62	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
63	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
64	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
66	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
67	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
68	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
69	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
70	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
71	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
72	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
73	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
74	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
75	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
76	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
77	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
78	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
79	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
81	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
82	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
83	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
84	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
85	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
86	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
87	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
88	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
89	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
90	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
91	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
92	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
93	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
94	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
95	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
96	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
97	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
98	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
99	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
100	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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