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 Dec 2025

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12/31/2025

Average data

Episodes: 179

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:44:29

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. The Telegraph (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (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	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
3	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	412	Megaphone	63
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
11	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
12	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	69
13	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
15	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
16	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	126	BBC	38
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
21	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
22	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
23	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
26	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
28	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
30	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
31	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
32	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
33	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	441	Acast	53
34	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
35	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
36	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
37	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
38	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
39	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
40	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
41	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	171	Spotify for Podcasters	28
42	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	450	Acast	74
43	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
44	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
45	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
46	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	6	ART19	63
47	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
48	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
49	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
50	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
51	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
52	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
53	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	6	ART19	63
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
56	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	386	Audion	58
57	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
58	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
59	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
60	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
61	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
62	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
63	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
64	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
65	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
66	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
67	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
68	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
69	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
70	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
71	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1205	Acast	59
72	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
73	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
74	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
75	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
76	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
77	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
78	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
79	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
80	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
81	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
82	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
83	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
84	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
85	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
86	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
87	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
88	The Days Adventure Podcast	thedaysadventure	Society & Culture	18	Podbean	52
89	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
90	Deliver Us From Ervil	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	69
91	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
92	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
93	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
94	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
95	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
96	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	671	Acast	69
97	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
98	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
99	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
100	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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