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 01 Jun 2025

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06/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 173

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:46:41

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. BBC (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
6	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
7	Cult of Body & Soul	Jess Rothschild & Broadway Podcast Network	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
8	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
9	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
11	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
16	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
17	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
18	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
20	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
22	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
23	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
25	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
27	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
28	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
29	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
30	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
31	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
32	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
33	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
34	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
35	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
36	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
37	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
38	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
39	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
40	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
41	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
42	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
43	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
44	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
45	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
46	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
47	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
48	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
49	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
50	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
51	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
52	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
53	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
54	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
55	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
56	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
57	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
58	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
59	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
60	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
61	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
62	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
63	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
64	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
65	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
66	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
67	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
68	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
69	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
70	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
71	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
72	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
73	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
74	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
75	پادکست داستانی ترپند /TarPand	Tarpand	Society & Culture	57	Acast	79
76	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
77	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
78	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
79	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
80	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
81	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
82	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
83	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
84	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
85	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
86	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
87	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
88	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
89	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
90	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
91	Get Hooked	Heidi Lynch	Society & Culture	6	RSS.com	68
92	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
93	Happiest Retirees	Ryan Doolittle	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	64
94	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
95	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
96	Emergency Traffic Details temporarily unavailable	Paul Prevost	Society & Culture	110	Spotify for Podcasters	53
97	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
98	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
99	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
100	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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