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 Sep 2025

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09/29/2025

Average data

Episodes: 207

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:43:58

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
2	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
3	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
4	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
12	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
14	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
17	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
21	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
23	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	442	Acast	53
24	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
25	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
27	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
28	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
29	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
30	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
31	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
32	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
34	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
36	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
37	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
38	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
41	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
42	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
43	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
44	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
45	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	386	Audion	58
46	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
47	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
48	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
49	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
51	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
52	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
53	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
54	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
55	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
56	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
57	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
58	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
59	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
60	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
61	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
62	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
63	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
64	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
65	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
66	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
67	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
68	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
69	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
70	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	12	Libsyn	62
71	Gavin Newsom - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	67	Spreaker	59
72	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
73	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
74	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
75	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
76	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
77	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
78	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
79	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
80	Howard Stern - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	113	Megaphone	63
81	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
82	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
83	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
84	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
85	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
86	锵锵三人行 (98-10年)	锵粉	Society & Culture	398	Spotify for Podcasters	33
87	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
88	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
89	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
90	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
91	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
92	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
93	Les Montréalistes	lesmontreallistes	Society & Culture	17	Podbean	63
94	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
95	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
96	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
97	JOURNEY	Ryan Wolf	Society & Culture	13	Acast	73
98	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
99	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
100	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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