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 29 Jul 2025

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07/29/2025

Average data

Episodes: 189

Frequency: every 246 days

Duration: 00:46:01

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 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	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
9	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
12	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
17	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
19	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
20	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
22	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
23	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
25	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
26	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
27	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
28	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
31	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
32	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
34	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
36	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
37	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
39	Mémoires d'Augustines	Le Monastère des Augustines	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	63
40	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
41	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
42	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
43	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
44	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
46	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
47	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
48	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
49	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
50	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
51	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
52	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
53	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
54	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
55	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
56	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
57	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
58	Hey, That's Weird	Luc Frost	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
59	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
60	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
61	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
62	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
63	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
64	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
65	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
66	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
67	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
68	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
69	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
70	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
71	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
72	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
73	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
74	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
75	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
76	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
77	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
78	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
79	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
82	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
83	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
84	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
85	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
86	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
87	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
88	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
89	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
90	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
91	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
92	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
93	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	48
94	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
95	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
96	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
97	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
98	Urban Legends And Mythology	Michael Ferrell	Society & Culture	103	Spotify for Podcasters	38
99	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
100	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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