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 31 Jul 2025

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07/31/2025

Average data

Episodes: 175

Frequency: every 251 days

Duration: 00:45:21

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (11 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 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	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	379	Spreaker	84
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1006	Simplecast	38
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	527	ART19	68
10	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	143	Acast	73
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	412	Audioboom	62
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	216	Acast	79
15	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
16	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	17	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	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
20	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
21	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
22	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
24	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
26	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	100	PRX	64
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	821	Megaphone	53
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
31	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	263	Acast	69
33	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
34	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
35	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
36	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
37	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
38	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
41	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	975	Megaphone	52
43	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
44	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
45	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
46	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
48	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
51	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
52	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
54	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
55	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	366	Megaphone	43
57	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
58	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
59	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
60	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
62	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
63	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
64	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
65	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	228	PRX	79
66	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
67	I Survived The Wild Outdoors	Brad Mathewson	Society & Culture	59	Acast	68
68	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
69	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
70	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
71	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
72	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
73	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
74	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
75	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
76	Garde-Manger	QUB radio	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	63
77	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
78	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
79	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
80	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
81	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
82	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
83	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
84	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
85	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
86	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
87	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
88	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
89	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
90	Mémoires d'Augustines	Le Monastère des Augustines	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	63
91	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
92	The Tim Ballard Podcast	Tim Ballard	Society & Culture	12	Buzzsprout	42
93	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
94	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
95	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
96	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
97	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
98	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
99	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
100	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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