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

Country

Main category

Sub category

Date

06/06/2025

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:42:43

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 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	313	Megaphone	42
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	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 Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
9	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
12	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
13	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
14	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
15	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
16	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
18	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
19	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	442	Acast	53
20	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
22	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	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	38	BBC	58
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
29	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
30	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
32	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
34	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
35	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
36	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
37	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	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	271	Spreaker	69
40	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
41	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
42	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	386	Audion	58
43	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
44	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
45	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
46	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
47	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
49	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
50	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
51	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
52	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	455	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	372	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	46	Acast	79
59	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
60	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	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	157	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	38	Octopus	59
67	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
68	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
69	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
70	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
71	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
72	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
73	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
74	Somebody Must Say These Things	Podstarter	Society & Culture	17	Transistor	83
75	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	132	Acast	43
76	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	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	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
81	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	277	Megaphone	32
82	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
83	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
84	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	673	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	130	Spotify for Podcasters	38
89	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
90	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
91	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	580	Spreaker	74
92	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	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	78	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	103	BBC	48

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.

For those interested in podcast creation, knowing the best hosting services and the most successful authors in your category can provide a competitive edge. Whether you're looking to start your own show or just want to see what's popular, this ranking offers a valuable snapshot of the podcasting world in Canada.
Explore more data on podcast rankings by diving into other categories and countries, and stay ahead in the ever-changing podcast scene.

Previous charts Next charts

About Methodology Contact Support me Privacy Policy Legal Notice