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 Jul 2025

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07/02/2025

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:45:17

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. The New York Times (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. BBC (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Megaphone (10 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	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
7	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
9	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
13	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
14	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
17	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
18	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
19	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	58	BBC	58
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
22	Top Comment	BBC	News	102	BBC	48
23	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	438	Acast	53
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
26	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
27	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
28	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
30	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
31	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	116	Acast	73
32	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
33	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
34	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
35	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
36	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
37	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
38	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
40	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
41	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
42	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
43	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
44	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
45	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
46	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
47	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	119	BBC	38
48	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
49	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
50	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	383	Audion	58
51	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
52	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
53	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
54	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
55	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
56	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
57	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
58	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
61	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
62	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
63	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
64	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
65	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
66	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
67	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
68	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
69	Pills and Power	Pills and Power	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	43
70	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
71	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
72	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
73	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
74	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
75	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
76	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
77	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
78	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
79	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
80	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
81	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
82	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
83	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
84	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
85	Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	112	Spotify for Podcasters	42
86	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
87	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
88	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
89	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
90	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
91	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	130	Spotify for Podcasters	38
92	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
93	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
94	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
95	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
96	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
97	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
98	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
99	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
100	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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