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 07 Jul 2025

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07/07/2025

Average data

Episodes: 159

Frequency: every 47 days

Duration: 00:47:27

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
6	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
8	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
11	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
15	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
16	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
17	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
19	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
22	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	48
23	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
26	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
27	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
31	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
32	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
33	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
34	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
35	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
36	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
37	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
38	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
39	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
41	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
42	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
44	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	431	RedCircle	59
45	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
46	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
47	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
48	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
49	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
50	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
51	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
52	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
53	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
55	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
56	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
57	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
58	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
59	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
60	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
61	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
62	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
63	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
64	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
65	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
66	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
67	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
68	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
69	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
70	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
71	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
72	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
73	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
74	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
75	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
76	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
77	Causality	The Engineered Network	Society & Culture	64	Unknown	89
78	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
79	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
80	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
81	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
83	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
84	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
85	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
86	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
87	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
88	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
89	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
90	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
91	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
92	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	202	Megaphone	53
93	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
94	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
95	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
96	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
97	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
98	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
99	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
100	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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