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 Nov 2025

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11/29/2025

Average data

Episodes: 184

Frequency: every 249 days

Duration: 00:46:08

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

3. The Telegraph (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
3	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
11	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
12	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
14	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
23	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
24	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
27	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
28	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
29	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
30	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
31	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
32	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
33	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
34	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
36	The Poison Detectives	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
37	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
40	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
41	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
42	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
43	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
46	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
47	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
48	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
50	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
51	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
52	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
56	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
57	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
58	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
59	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
60	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
61	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
62	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
63	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
64	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
65	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
66	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
67	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
68	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
69	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
70	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
71	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
72	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
73	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
74	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
75	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
76	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
77	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
78	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
79	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
80	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
81	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
83	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
84	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
85	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
86	Unclaimed	Ancestry	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	69
87	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
88	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
89	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
90	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
91	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
92	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
93	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
94	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
95	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
96	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
97	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
98	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
99	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
100	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49

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