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 30 Jul 2025

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07/30/2025

Average data

Episodes: 174

Frequency: every 248 days

Duration: 00:47:07

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

4. CBC (3 shows)

5. BBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 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	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
7	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
11	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
13	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
16	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
26	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
27	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
29	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
30	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	697	Megaphone	53
31	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
33	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
34	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
35	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
37	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
38	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
39	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
40	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
41	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
42	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
44	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
45	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
46	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
47	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
48	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
49	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
50	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
52	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
53	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
54	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
55	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
56	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
57	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
58	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
59	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
60	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
61	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
62	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
63	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
64	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
66	Mémoires d'Augustines	Le Monastère des Augustines	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	63
67	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
68	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
69	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
70	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
71	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
72	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
73	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
74	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
75	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
76	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
77	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
78	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
79	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
80	Garde-Manger	QUB radio	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	63
81	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
82	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	555	Spreaker	74
83	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
84	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
85	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
86	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
87	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
88	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
89	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
90	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
92	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
93	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
94	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
95	The Anunnaki Connection	Jason Abadi	Society & Culture	103	Spotify for Podcasters	43
96	À la poursuite de Gilles Villeneuve	QUB radio et Le Guide de l'auto	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	73
97	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
98	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
99	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	161	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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