Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Society & Culture

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Canada - Category Society & Culture

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 24 Dec 2025

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12/24/2025

Average data

Episodes: 379

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:55:18

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (5 shows)

2. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. Audible Original (3 shows)

5. Apostrophe Podcast Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. ART19 (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Author	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
2	Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe	Apostrophe Podcast Network	Society & Culture	179	Acast	73
3	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
4	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	416	Megaphone	53
5	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
6	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
7	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	27	RSS.com	58
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
9	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1169	Megaphone	58
10	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	134	Omny Studio	63
11	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
12	Ideas	CBC	Society & Culture	237	Triton Digital	53
13	Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly	Apostrophe Podcast Network	Society & Culture	442	Acast	68
14	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
15	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1235	Libsyn	63
16	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	219	Omny Studio	69
17	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	447	Megaphone	63
18	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1202	Omny Studio	59
19	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	81	Buzzsprout	38
20	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	162	Simplecast	73
21	Roz & Mocha	Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	1692	Simplecast	53
22	Shut Up Evan	Evan Ross Katz	Society & Culture	106	Acast	59
23	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2857	Acast	43
24	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	415	Megaphone	63
25	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	61	ART19	63
26	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	160	Megaphone	53
27	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	119	ART19	68
28	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	70	Megaphone	42
29	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	412	Megaphone	48
30	OUBLIE PAS TA BROSSE À DENTS - Podcast d’Alexandre Barrette	Alexandre Barrette	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	31
31	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	947	Simplecast	38
32	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
33	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	655	Megaphone	48
34	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	359	ART19	68
35	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
36	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	23	Spreaker	84
37	Ouvre ton jeu avec Marie-Claude Barrette	Umano Productions	Society & Culture	191	Spotify for Podcasters	52
38	Contact - avec Stéphan Bureau	Les Productions de la Tête Chercheuse Inc.	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	68
39	Scamfluencers	Audible Original	Society & Culture	152	ART19	73
40	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	316	Megaphone	42
41	Q with Tom Power	CBC	Society & Culture	1472	Triton Digital	53
42	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	253	Megaphone	38
43	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
44	Sightings	REVERB \| QCODE	Society & Culture	60	Megaphone	73
45	The Ripple Effect with Jenna Kim Jones	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	63
46	Le 5 à 7 Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Jessica Roux & Rosemarie Santerre	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	48
47	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
48	Nuanced.	Aaron Pete	News	307	Buzzsprout	58
49	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
50	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	693	Megaphone	42
51	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	91	Simplecast	47
52	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	64	Substack	43
53	Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud	CBC	Society & Culture	709	Triton Digital	32
54	The Sunday Magazine	CBC	Society & Culture	102	Triton Digital	43
55	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
56	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
57	Family Secrets	Family Secrets	Society & Culture	259	Megaphone	48
58	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	282	Omny Studio	83
59	Against The Odds	Audible Original	Society & Culture	297	ART19	83
60	Don't Listen To Us with Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody	Lemonada Media	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	53
61	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	134	Simplecast	68
62	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
63	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	446	Megaphone	32
64	Within Reason	Alex J O'Connor	Society & Culture	163	Spotify for Podcasters	28
65	On s'connait pas tant que ça	Studio SF	Society & Culture	203	Acast	58
66	Chez moi	Mariloup Wolfe	Society & Culture	35	Acast	63
67	1440 Explores	1440 Media	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	63
68	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	811	Megaphone	58
69	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
70	La vie sociale	La vie sociale	Society & Culture	206	Podbean	62
71	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	137	WideOrbit	48
72	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	133	BBC	38
73	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
74	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
75	See You in Court	CBC	Society & Culture	23	Triton Digital	83
76	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
77	Against the Rules: Blockers Companion Podcast	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	108	Omny Studio	63
78	The Jamie & Donna Winship Podcast	Identity Exchange	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	58
79	Gloves Off	Gloves Off with Stephen Marche	Society & Culture	35	Acast	84
80	Blowback	Blowback	Society & Culture	80	RedCircle	53
81	Party Pyjama	Party Pyjama	Society & Culture	85	Acast	79
82	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	56	Megaphone	48
83	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	468	ART19	73
84	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	819	Megaphone	64
85	Aujourd'hui l'histoire	Radio-Canada	Society & Culture	104	Triton Digital	49
86	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
87	Oprah's Super Soul	Oprah	Society & Culture	646	Acast	38
88	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	158	Megaphone	53
89	Québec Nostalgie : le podcast	Québec Nostalgie	Society & Culture	47	RSS.com	41
90	Jillian on Love	Jillian Turecki \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	221	Megaphone	83
91	Tubby	Left of Dial Media	Society & Culture	16	Acast	64
92	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
93	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	129	Megaphone	38
94	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	712	Megaphone	53
95	It's Been a Minute	NPR	Society & Culture	1125	Simplecast	69
96	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	153	N/A	N/A
97	Not Loveline	Tana Mongeau and Trish Paytas	Society & Culture	92	Megaphone	38
98	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	86	Megaphone	42
99	忽左忽右 Details temporarily unavailable	JustPod	Society & Culture	650	Unknown	89
100	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63

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