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 05 Jun 2025

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06/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 197

Frequency: every 236 days

Duration: 00:46:56

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. BBC (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 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	307	Megaphone	42
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	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	353	ART19	68
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
9	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
13	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
14	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
16	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
18	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
20	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
21	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
23	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
25	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
26	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
31	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
32	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
35	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
36	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
42	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
43	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
44	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
45	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
46	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	48
47	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
48	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
49	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
50	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
51	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	431	RedCircle	59
52	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
53	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
54	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
55	Au pays des cratères	Élise Ekker-Lambert et Gaël Poirier	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	79
56	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
57	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
58	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
59	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
60	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
61	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
62	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
63	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
64	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
65	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
66	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
67	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
68	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
69	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
70	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
71	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
72	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
75	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
76	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
77	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
78	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
79	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
80	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
81	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
82	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
83	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
84	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
85	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
86	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
87	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
88	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
89	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
90	Grace For Impact	Peoples Media	Society & Culture	76	Acast	94
91	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
92	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	127	Acast	43
93	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
94	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
95	Motherhood vs The Machine	Theos	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
96	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
97	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
98	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
99	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
100	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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