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 Jul 2025

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07/04/2025

Average data

Episodes: 153

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:46:57

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
2	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
5	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
7	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
8	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
12	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
13	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
14	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
15	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
16	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
17	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
18	Top Comment	BBC	News	103	BBC	48
19	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
20	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
22	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
23	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
25	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	32	Podbean	41
26	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
27	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
28	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
32	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
33	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
34	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
35	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
36	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
37	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
38	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
39	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
40	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
41	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
42	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
43	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
45	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
46	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
49	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
50	Causality	The Engineered Network	Society & Culture	64	Unknown	89
51	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
52	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
53	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
55	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
56	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
57	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
58	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
59	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	456	RedCircle	59
60	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
61	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
62	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
63	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
64	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
65	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
66	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
67	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
68	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
69	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
70	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
71	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
72	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
73	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
74	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
75	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
76	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
77	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
78	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
79	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
80	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
81	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
82	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
83	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
84	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
85	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
86	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
87	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	130	Spotify for Podcasters	38
88	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
89	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
90	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
92	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
93	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
94	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
95	Extraordinary Evidence \| ESP Is Real	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
96	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
97	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
98	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
99	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
100	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62

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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