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 04 Jun 2025

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06/04/2025

Average data

Episodes: 198

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:45:03

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (9 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	302	Megaphone	42
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
6	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
9	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
12	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
13	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
14	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
17	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
19	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
20	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
21	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
25	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
26	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
27	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
29	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
31	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
32	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
33	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
34	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
35	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
37	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
38	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
41	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
42	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
43	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
45	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
46	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
47	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
48	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
49	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
50	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
51	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
52	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
53	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
54	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
55	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
56	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
57	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
58	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
59	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
60	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
61	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
62	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
63	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
64	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
65	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
66	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
67	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
68	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
72	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
73	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
74	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
75	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
76	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
77	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
78	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
79	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
80	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
81	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
82	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
83	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
84	Au pays des cratères	Élise Ekker-Lambert et Gaël Poirier	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	79
85	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
86	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
87	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
88	Extraordinary Evidence \| ESP Is Real	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
89	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
90	The Frost Tapes	Wilfred Frost, David Paradine Productions Ltd	Society & Culture	21	Simplecast	79
91	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan	Society & Culture	375	Blubrry Podcasting	43
92	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
93	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
94	Alien UFO Podcast	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	438	Simplecast	63
95	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
96	The Invisible Hand	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	8	Audioboom	73
97	Le dernier vol de Raymond Boulanger : Révélations	iHeartRadio	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
98	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
99	The Anunnaki Connection	Jason Abadi	Society & Culture	103	Spotify for Podcasters	43
100	Garde-Manger	QUB radio	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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