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 Dec 2025

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12/27/2025

Average data

Episodes: 178

Frequency: every 246 days

Duration: 00:45:50

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. BBC (2 shows)

3. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (8 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (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	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
4	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
11	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	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	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
15	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
20	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
21	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
23	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
24	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
25	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
26	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
27	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
28	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
30	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
32	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
33	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
34	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
35	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
36	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
37	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
40	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
42	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
43	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
44	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
45	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	48
46	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
47	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
48	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
49	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
50	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
51	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
52	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
54	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
55	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
56	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
58	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
59	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
60	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
61	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
62	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
63	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
64	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
65	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
66	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
67	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
68	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
69	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
70	Trial by Shelter: Speaking back to the war on the unhoused	Voices Collective	Society & Culture	4	Libsyn	58
71	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
72	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
73	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
74	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
75	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
76	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
77	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
79	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
80	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
81	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
82	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
83	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
84	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
85	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
86	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
87	The Unraveling: How Your Reality Is Made Up	Mica Ringo	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	63
88	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
89	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
90	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
91	Howard Stern - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	69
92	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
93	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
94	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
95	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
96	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
97	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
98	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
99	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
100	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	644	Acast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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