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 03 Mar 2025

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03/03/2025

Average data

Episodes: 191

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:44:56

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (6 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (9 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	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
4	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
7	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
8	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
10	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
15	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
16	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
18	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
20	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
21	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
22	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
23	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
24	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	122	BBC	38
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
26	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
27	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
28	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
29	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	441	Acast	53
30	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
31	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
32	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
33	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
34	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
35	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
36	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	384	Audion	58
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
38	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
39	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
40	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
42	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
43	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
44	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
45	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
46	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
47	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
48	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
49	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
50	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
51	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
52	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
53	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
54	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
55	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
56	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
57	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
58	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1203	Acast	59
59	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
60	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
61	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
62	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
63	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	58	BBC	58
64	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
65	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
66	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
67	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	449	Acast	74
68	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
69	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
70	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
71	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
72	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
73	Ghost Herd	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	43
74	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
75	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
76	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
77	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	451	RedCircle	59
78	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
79	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
80	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
81	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
82	The Poison Detectives	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
83	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
84	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
85	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
86	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
87	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
88	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
89	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
90	White Smoke - Pope Leo’s Cancer Diagnosis	Caloroga Media	News	134	Spreaker	63
91	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
92	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	92	Megaphone	58
93	The Stratford Slice	Stratford Slice	Society & Culture	59	Spotify for Podcasters	38
94	We Want Them Infected Podcast	Dr. Jonathan Howard and Wendy Orent	Society & Culture	88	Libsyn	62
95	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
96	Audio \| InSight Crime	InSight Crime	Society & Culture	116	Spotify for Podcasters	53
98	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
99	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
100	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	32

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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