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 Sep 2025

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09/28/2025

Average data

Episodes: 188

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:44:35

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. Inception Point Ai (3 shows)

5. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spreaker (7 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	95	Acast	79
3	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
4	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
10	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
13	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
14	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
18	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
21	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
22	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
25	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
26	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
28	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
29	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
30	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
31	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
33	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
34	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
35	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
36	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
38	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
39	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
42	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
43	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
44	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
45	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
46	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
47	Gavin Newsom - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	67	Spreaker	59
48	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
49	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
50	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	374	Audion	58
51	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
52	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
53	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
54	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
55	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
56	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
57	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
58	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
59	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
60	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
61	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
62	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
63	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
64	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
65	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
66	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
67	Les Montréalistes	lesmontreallistes	Society & Culture	17	Podbean	63
68	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
69	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
70	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
71	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
72	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	7	Libsyn	58
73	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
74	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
75	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
76	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
77	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
78	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
79	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
80	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
81	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
82	Paranoid American	Paranoid American	News	224	RedCircle	53
83	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
84	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
85	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
86	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
87	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
88	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
89	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	86	Acast	89
90	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
91	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
92	Jason Bateman - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	59
93	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
94	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
95	Howard Stern - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	69
96	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
97	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	645	Acast	69
98	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
99	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
100	Top Comment	BBC	News	99	BBC	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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