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 Jul 2025

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07/08/2025

Average data

Episodes: 162

Frequency: every 46 days

Duration: 00:44:37

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (6 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 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	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
7	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
11	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
13	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
14	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
15	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
16	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	48
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
18	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
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	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
22	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
23	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
24	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
25	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
28	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
29	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
30	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
32	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
34	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
35	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
36	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
37	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
38	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
39	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
40	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
41	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
42	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
43	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
44	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
45	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
46	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
47	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
48	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
51	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
52	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
53	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
54	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
55	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
56	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
57	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
58	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
59	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
60	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
61	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
62	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
63	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
64	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
65	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
66	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
67	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	431	RedCircle	59
68	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
69	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
70	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
71	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
72	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
73	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
74	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
75	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
76	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
77	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
78	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
79	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
80	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
81	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
82	Causality	The Engineered Network	Society & Culture	64	Unknown	89
83	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
84	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
85	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
86	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
87	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
88	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
89	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
90	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
91	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
92	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
93	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
94	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
95	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
96	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
97	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
98	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
99	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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