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 May 2025

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05/08/2025

Average data

Episodes: 182

Frequency: every 246 days

Duration: 00:46:20

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. TVO (2 shows)

4. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
3	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
4	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
8	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
9	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
10	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
14	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
15	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
19	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
20	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
21	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	438	Acast	53
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
24	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
26	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
28	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	447	RedCircle	59
29	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
30	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
32	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
33	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
34	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
36	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
37	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
38	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
39	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
40	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
41	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	381	Audion	58
42	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
43	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
45	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
46	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
47	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
48	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
49	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
51	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
52	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
53	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
54	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
55	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
56	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
57	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
58	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
59	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
60	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
61	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
64	Pour de vrai	Clémentine C	Society & Culture	56	Spotify for Podcasters	48
65	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
66	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
67	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
68	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
69	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
70	Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	112	Spotify for Podcasters	42
71	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
72	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
73	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
74	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
75	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
76	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
77	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
78	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
79	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	414	BBC	28
80	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
81	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
82	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
83	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
84	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
85	St-Jean-Vianney, le village aux pieds d’argile	Centre d'histoire Arvida	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	38
86	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
87	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
88	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
89	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
90	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
91	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	663	Acast	69
92	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
93	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
94	Au pays des cratères	Élise Ekker-Lambert et Gaël Poirier	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	79
95	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
96	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
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	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
100	The FreeNZ Podcast	FreeNZ	Society & Culture	176	Spotify for Podcasters	28

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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