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 Oct 2025

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10/28/2025

Average data

Episodes: 183

Frequency: every 250 days

Duration: 00:47:50

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
10	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
11	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
15	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
18	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
21	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
22	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
24	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
25	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
28	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
29	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
30	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
31	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
33	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
34	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
35	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
36	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
39	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
40	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
41	ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING	Big Theory Podcasts	Society & Culture	550	RedCircle	49
42	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
43	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
44	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
45	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
46	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
48	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
49	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
50	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
52	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
53	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
54	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
58	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
59	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
60	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
61	The Corrymeela Podcast	Corrymeela	Society & Culture	43	Squarespace	58
62	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
63	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
64	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
65	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
66	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
69	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
70	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
71	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
72	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
73	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
74	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
75	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
76	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
77	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
78	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
79	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
82	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
83	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
84	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
85	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
86	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
87	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
88	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
89	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
90	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
91	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
92	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
93	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
94	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
95	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
96	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
97	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
98	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
99	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
100	Punjabi Lehar Podcasts	Punjabi Lehar	Society & Culture	12	RSS.com	32

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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