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 Jul 2025

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07/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 175

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:46:04

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
5	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
14	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
15	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
17	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
20	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
21	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
22	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
23	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	48
24	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	435	Acast	53
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
27	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	23	RSS.com	52
28	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
31	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
32	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
33	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	445	Acast	74
34	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
35	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
36	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
37	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
38	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
39	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	267	Spreaker	69
41	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
42	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
43	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
44	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
45	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	108	BBC	38
46	Pills and Power	Pills and Power	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	43
47	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	378	Audion	58
48	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
49	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
50	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
51	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
52	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
53	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
54	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
55	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
56	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
57	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
58	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53
59	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
60	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
61	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
64	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
65	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
66	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
67	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
68	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
69	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
70	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	164	Omny Studio	69
71	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
72	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
73	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
74	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
75	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
76	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	79	Spreaker	43
77	Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	111	Spotify for Podcasters	42
78	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
79	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
80	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
81	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
82	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
83	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	413	BBC	28
84	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
85	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
86	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
87	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	272	Megaphone	32
88	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	703	Megaphone	53
89	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1197	Acast	59
90	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
91	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
92	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
93	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	436	RedCircle	59
94	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
95	Saving Apollo 13 👨‍🚀	Forensic Engineer Sean Brady — from Brady Heywood	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	69
96	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
97	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
98	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
99	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
100	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	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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