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 Sep 2025

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09/30/2025

Average data

Episodes: 194

Frequency: every 246 days

Duration: 00:45:24

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. The New York Times (2 shows)

4. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
2	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
3	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	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	940	Simplecast	38
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
8	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
12	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
13	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
18	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
22	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
23	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
24	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
25	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
26	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
27	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
28	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
29	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
30	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
32	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
33	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
34	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
36	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
37	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
39	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
40	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
41	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
43	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
44	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
45	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
46	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
47	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
48	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
49	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
51	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
52	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
54	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
56	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
57	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
58	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
59	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
60	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
61	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
62	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
63	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
64	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
65	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
66	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
67	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
68	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
69	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
70	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
71	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	8	Libsyn	52
72	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
73	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
74	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
75	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
76	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
77	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
78	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
79	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
80	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
81	小邁想聽	邁淵明	Society & Culture	5	Transistor	53
82	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
83	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
84	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
85	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
86	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
87	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
88	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
89	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
90	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
91	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
92	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
93	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
94	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
95	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
96	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
97	Gavin Newsom - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	67	Spreaker	59
98	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
99	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
100	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63

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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