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 Aug 2025

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08/30/2025

Average data

Episodes: 162

Frequency: every 250 days

Duration: 00:47:56

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (5 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	306	Megaphone	42
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
9	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
11	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
14	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
15	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
21	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
22	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
23	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
24	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
27	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
28	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
30	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
31	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	566	Spreaker	74
32	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
33	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
34	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
35	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
36	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	374	Audion	58
38	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
41	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
42	Top Comment	BBC	News	99	BBC	48
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
45	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
46	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
47	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
48	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
49	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
50	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
51	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
52	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
53	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
54	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
55	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
56	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
57	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	427	RedCircle	59
58	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
59	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
60	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
61	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
62	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
63	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
65	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
66	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
67	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
68	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
69	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
70	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
71	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
72	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
73	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
74	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
75	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
76	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
77	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
78	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
79	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
80	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
81	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
83	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
84	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
85	Taylor Swift' and Travis Kelce	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	49
86	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
87	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
88	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
89	Niche to Meet You	Leslie Eiler Thompson	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
90	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
91	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
92	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
93	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
94	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
95	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
96	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
97	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
98	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
99	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
100	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48

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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