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 nov. 2025

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11/28/2025

Average data

Episodes: 189

Frequency: every 233 days

Duration: 00:48:24

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. Spreaker (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
7	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	350	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	378	Audioboom	62
13	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
18	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
19	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
26	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
29	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
30	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
31	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
32	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
34	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
35	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
36	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
37	The Poison Detectives	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
40	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
41	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
42	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
43	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	161	Spotify for Podcasters	28
46	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
47	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
48	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
49	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
50	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
51	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
52	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
54	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
55	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
56	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
57	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
58	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
59	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
60	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
61	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	369	Audion	58
62	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
63	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
64	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
65	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
66	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	122	Simplecast	53
68	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
69	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
70	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
71	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
72	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
73	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
74	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
75	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
76	The Disasterfield Show	Cole Fouillard	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	49
77	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
78	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
79	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
82	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
83	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
84	True Stories with Seth Andrews	Seth Andrews	Society & Culture	448	Spreaker	53
85	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
86	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
87	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
88	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
89	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
90	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
91	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
92	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	491	RedCircle	43
93	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
94	L'Avenir nous le dira	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
95	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
96	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
97	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
98	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
99	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	523	Spreaker	43
100	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

The podcast landscape in Canada is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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