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 09 Apr 2025

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04/09/2025

Average data

Episodes: 155

Frequency: every 250 days

Duration: 00:44:07

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

4. CBC (3 shows)

5. Wavland (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 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	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	156	Acast	43
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
4	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	405	Megaphone	63
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
7	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
10	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
11	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
12	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	304	Megaphone	42
14	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
16	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
18	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	32
20	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
21	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
22	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
24	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
25	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
26	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
28	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	88	Libsyn	62
29	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
31	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
32	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
33	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
35	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
36	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
37	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
38	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
39	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
41	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
42	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
43	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
44	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
45	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
47	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
48	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
49	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
50	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
51	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1190	Acast	59
52	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
53	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
54	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
55	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
56	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	371	Audion	58
57	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
58	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
59	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
61	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
62	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
63	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
64	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	699	Megaphone	53
65	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
66	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
67	Métis Speaker Series	Metis Nation British Columbia	Society & Culture	63	RedCircle	63
68	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
70	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
71	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
72	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
73	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
74	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
75	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	123	Simplecast	53
76	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
77	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
78	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
79	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
80	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
81	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
82	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
83	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	523	Spreaker	43
84	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
85	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
86	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
87	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	89	Buzzsprout	57
88	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
89	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
90	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
91	The Superhero Complex	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
92	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
93	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
94	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	411	BBC	28
95	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
96	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
97	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
98	Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy	DreamCrew	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	48
99	Toplines and Tales	Andy Frazier	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
100	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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