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 Aug 2025

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08/29/2025

Average data

Episodes: 153

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:46:36

Top 5 authors

1. BBC (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (8 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
9	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
11	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
13	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
15	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
17	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
24	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
30	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
31	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
32	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
33	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
34	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	566	Spreaker	74
35	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
36	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
37	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
38	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
39	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
40	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
41	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
42	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
43	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
44	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	102	BBC	38
45	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
48	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
51	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
52	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	429	RedCircle	59
53	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
54	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
55	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
56	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
57	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
58	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	375	Audion	58
59	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
60	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
61	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
62	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
63	Taylor Swift' and Travis Kelce	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	49
64	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
65	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
66	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
67	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
68	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
70	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
71	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
72	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
73	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
74	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
75	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
76	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
77	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
78	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
79	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
80	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
81	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
82	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
83	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
84	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
85	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
87	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
88	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
89	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
90	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
91	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
92	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
93	Earshot	ABC listen	Society & Culture	250	ABC Australia	38
94	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
95	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
96	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
97	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
98	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
99	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
100	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53

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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