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 Jun 2025

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06/08/2025

Average data

Episodes: 173

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:45:40

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 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	306	Megaphone	42
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
6	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
8	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
9	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
10	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
13	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
14	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
17	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
18	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
19	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
22	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
23	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
26	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
27	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
28	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
31	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	426	RedCircle	59
32	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
33	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
34	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
36	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
37	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
41	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
42	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
43	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
45	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
46	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
47	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
48	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
49	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
50	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
51	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
52	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
53	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
54	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
55	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
56	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
57	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
58	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
59	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
60	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
61	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
62	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
63	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
64	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
65	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
66	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	55	BBC	58
67	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
68	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
69	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
70	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
71	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
72	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
73	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
74	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
75	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
76	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
77	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
78	咸柠七	巨有文化	Society & Culture	257	Ximalaya	48
79	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
82	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
83	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
84	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
85	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
86	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
87	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
88	The Canadian Podcow	Sarah Sache & Andrew Campbell	Society & Culture	44	RSS.com	63
89	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
90	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
91	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
92	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
93	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
94	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
95	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
96	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	111	Ximalaya	59
97	Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Erin Elizabeth Hynes of Pina Travels	Society & Culture	158	Audioboom	47
98	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
99	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
100	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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