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 Nov 2025

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11/27/2025

Average data

Episodes: 183

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:47:28

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

3. The New York Times (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 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	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
8	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
11	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
13	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
14	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
15	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
26	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
29	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
30	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
31	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
32	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
34	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
35	The Poison Detectives	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
36	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
37	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
38	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
39	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
40	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
41	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
42	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
43	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
44	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
45	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
46	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
47	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
48	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
49	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
50	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
51	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
55	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
56	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
57	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
58	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
59	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
60	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
64	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
65	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
66	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
67	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
68	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
69	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
70	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
71	Transgression - My Search For the REAL Trans Agenda in Saskatchewan	Todd Rennebohm	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	38
72	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
73	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
74	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
75	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
76	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
77	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
78	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
79	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
80	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
81	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
82	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
83	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
84	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
85	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
86	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
87	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
88	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
89	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
90	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
91	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
92	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
93	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
94	Prince Andrew - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	59
95	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
96	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
97	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
98	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
99	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
100	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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