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 Jun 2025

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06/02/2025

Average data

Episodes: 186

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:45:13

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. CBC (5 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 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	312	Megaphone	42
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	412	Megaphone	63
6	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
7	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	442	Megaphone	32
13	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
14	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
15	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
16	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
17	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
19	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	441	Acast	53
20	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
23	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
25	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
27	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
28	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
29	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
30	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
31	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
32	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
33	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
34	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
35	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
37	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
38	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
39	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
40	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
41	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	452	RedCircle	59
42	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	58	BBC	58
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	124	BBC	38
44	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
45	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	385	Audion	58
46	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
47	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
48	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
49	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
50	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
51	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
52	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
53	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
54	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
55	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
56	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
57	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
58	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
59	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
60	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
61	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	125	Buzzsprout	53
62	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
63	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
64	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
65	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
66	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
67	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
68	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
69	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
70	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
71	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1204	Acast	59
72	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
73	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
74	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
75	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
76	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
77	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
78	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
79	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
80	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
81	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
82	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
83	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
84	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
85	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
86	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
87	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
88	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
89	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
90	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
91	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
92	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
93	White Men Can't Work!	Tim Samuels	Society & Culture	6	Acast	74
94	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
95	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
96	The Anunnaki Connection	Jason Abadi	Society & Culture	103	Spotify for Podcasters	43
97	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
98	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
99	Unpacking the Impacts	Consent is Golden	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	53
100	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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