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 06 Jun 2025

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06/06/2025

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:42:49

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. PRX (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	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	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
12	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
13	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
14	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
15	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
16	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
18	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
19	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
20	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
22	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
24	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
25	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
26	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
29	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
30	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
32	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
34	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
35	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
36	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
37	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
38	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
40	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
41	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
42	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
43	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
44	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
45	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
46	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
47	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
49	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
50	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
51	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
52	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
56	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
57	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
58	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
59	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
60	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
61	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
62	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
63	Svetlana! Svetlana!	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
64	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
65	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
66	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
67	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
68	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
69	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
70	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
71	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
72	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
73	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
74	Somebody Must Say These Things	Podstarter	Society & Culture	17	Transistor	83
75	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	122	Acast	43
76	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
77	Au pays des cratères	Élise Ekker-Lambert et Gaël Poirier	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	79
78	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
79	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
80	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
81	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
82	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
83	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
84	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
85	Les enfants nés du viol	Maude Petel-Légaré	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	79
86	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
87	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
88	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	128	Spotify for Podcasters	38
89	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
90	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
91	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
92	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
93	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
94	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
95	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
96	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
97	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
98	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
99	Documentary Stories	Luis	Society & Culture	364	Spreaker	64
100	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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