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 Oct 2025

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10/30/2025

Average data

Episodes: 214

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:48:00

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 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	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
5	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
7	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
11	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
12	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
16	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
17	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
18	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
23	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
25	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
26	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
27	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
30	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
31	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
32	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
33	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
34	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
35	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
37	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
38	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
39	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
42	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
43	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
44	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
46	ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING	Big Theory Podcasts	Society & Culture	550	RedCircle	49
47	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
48	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
49	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
50	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
51	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
52	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
53	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
56	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
57	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
58	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
59	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
60	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
61	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
62	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
63	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
64	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
65	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
66	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
67	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
68	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
69	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
70	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
71	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
72	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
73	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
74	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
75	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
76	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
79	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
80	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
81	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
82	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
83	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
84	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
85	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
86	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
87	Visionaries	unknown_author	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	48
88	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
89	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
90	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
91	The Corrymeela Podcast	Corrymeela	Society & Culture	43	Squarespace	58
92	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
93	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
94	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
95	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
96	Avestruz Master	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	53
97	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
98	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
99	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
100	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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