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 02 Apr 2025

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04/02/2025

Average data

Episodes: 175

Frequency: every 241 days

Duration: 00:44:45

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (11 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	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
6	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
7	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
9	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
10	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
16	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
17	The Superhero Complex	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
18	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
19	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
20	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
21	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
22	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
24	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
26	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
29	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
30	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
31	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
32	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
33	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	439	Acast	53
34	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
35	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	120	BBC	38
36	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	383	Audion	58
37	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
38	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
39	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
40	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
41	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	450	RedCircle	59
42	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	449	Acast	74
43	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
45	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
46	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
47	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
48	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
49	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
50	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
51	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
52	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
53	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
54	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
55	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
56	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
57	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
58	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
59	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
60	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
61	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
62	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
63	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
64	Growing Guelph	Growing Guelph	Society & Culture	16	Acast	69
65	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
66	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
67	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
68	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
69	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
70	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
71	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
72	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
73	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
74	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
75	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
76	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	131	Acast	43
77	搞钱学姐	搞钱学姐	Society & Culture	86	Ximalaya	59
78	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	58	BBC	58
79	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
80	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
81	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	665	Acast	69
82	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
83	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
84	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
85	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
86	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
87	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
88	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
89	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
90	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
91	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
92	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
93	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
94	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
95	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
96	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
97	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
98	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	59	Captivate	69
99	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
100	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59

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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