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 08 Apr 2025

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04/08/2025

Average data

Episodes: 199

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:45:26

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

3. CBC (4 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

5. Olimpia Pérez (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Omny Studio (13 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. BBC (12 shows)

5. Simplecast (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
5	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
6	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
7	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
8	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
9	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
11	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
12	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
14	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
15	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
18	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
20	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
26	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
27	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
28	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
31	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
33	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
34	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
35	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
36	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
37	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
38	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
39	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
40	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
42	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
43	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
44	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
45	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
46	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
47	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
48	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
49	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
51	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
52	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
53	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
54	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
55	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
56	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
57	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
58	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
61	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
62	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
63	The Superhero Complex	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
64	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
65	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
66	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
67	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
68	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
69	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
70	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
71	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
72	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
73	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
74	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
75	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
76	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	120	Simplecast	53
77	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
78	Métis Speaker Series	Metis Nation British Columbia	Society & Culture	63	RedCircle	63
79	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
80	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
81	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
82	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
83	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
84	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
85	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
86	On Site Report	Theodore Abbott	Society & Culture	6	Podbean	38
87	La Biblioteca de los Sueños: Documentales para Dormir	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	51	Simplecast	68
88	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
89	Expedition: Earth	National Geographic Asia	Society & Culture	13	Spotify for Podcasters	63
90	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
91	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	110	Megaphone	68
92	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
93	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
94	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
95	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
96	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
97	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
98	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
99	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	89	Buzzsprout	57
100	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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