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 Dec 2025

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12/30/2025

Average data

Episodes: 172

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:48:03

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Ear Hustle & Radiotopia (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. BBC (8 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	409	Megaphone	63
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
6	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	23	RSS.com	52
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	376	Audioboom	62
15	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	439	Megaphone	32
18	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
19	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
20	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	112	BBC	38
22	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
25	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
26	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
27	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	435	Acast	53
28	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
30	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
31	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
32	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
34	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
35	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
37	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
38	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
39	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
40	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	380	Audion	58
41	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
42	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
43	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	446	Acast	74
44	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
46	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
47	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
48	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
49	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
50	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
51	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
52	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
53	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1199	Acast	59
54	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
56	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
57	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
58	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
59	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
60	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
61	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
62	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
63	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
64	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
66	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
67	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
68	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
69	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
70	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
71	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
72	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
73	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
74	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	62
75	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
76	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
77	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
78	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
79	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
82	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
83	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
84	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
85	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	98	Omny Studio	89
86	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
87	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
88	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
89	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
90	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
91	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
92	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
93	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
94	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
95	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
96	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
97	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
98	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
99	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	57	Audiomeans	73
100	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	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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