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 Jul 2025

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07/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 144

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:46:30

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (5 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
2	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
3	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
6	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
7	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
11	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
13	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
14	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
15	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
16	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
17	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
18	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	48
19	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
21	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
22	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
25	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
27	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
28	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
29	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
30	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
32	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
33	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
34	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
35	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
36	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
37	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
38	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
39	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
40	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	431	RedCircle	59
41	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
42	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
43	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
44	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
45	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
47	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
48	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
49	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
50	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
51	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
52	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
55	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
56	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
57	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
58	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
59	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
60	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
61	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
62	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
63	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
64	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
65	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
66	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
67	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
68	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
69	Causality	The Engineered Network	Society & Culture	64	Unknown	89
70	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
71	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
72	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
74	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
75	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
76	The Nasty	Mark Healy	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	33
77	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
78	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
79	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
82	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
83	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
84	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
85	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
86	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
87	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
88	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
89	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
90	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
91	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
92	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
93	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
94	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
95	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
96	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
97	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
98	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
99	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
100	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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