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 28 Jul 2025

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07/28/2025

Average data

Episodes: 185

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:48:01

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 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	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
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	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
12	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
13	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
21	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
22	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
23	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
26	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
30	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
31	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
34	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
35	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
36	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
37	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
38	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
39	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
40	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
42	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
43	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
44	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
46	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
47	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
48	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
49	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
50	Mémoires d'Augustines	Le Monastère des Augustines	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	63
51	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
52	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
54	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
55	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
56	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
57	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
59	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
60	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
61	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
62	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
63	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
64	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	48
65	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
66	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
69	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
70	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
71	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
72	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
73	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
74	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
75	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
76	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
77	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
78	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
79	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
80	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
81	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
82	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
83	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
84	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
85	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	122	Acast	43
86	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
87	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
88	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
89	ColdFusion	Dagogo Altraide	Society & Culture	43	RSS.com	68
90	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
91	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
92	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
93	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
94	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
95	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
96	Hey, That's Weird	Luc Frost	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
97	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
98	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
99	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
100	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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