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 May 2025

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05/09/2025

Average data

Episodes: 179

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:45:25

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 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	157	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	531	ART19	68
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1008	Simplecast	38
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
8	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
9	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
10	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
12	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
15	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
17	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64
18	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
19	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
23	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
25	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
26	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
28	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
29	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
30	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
31	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
32	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	264	Spreaker	69
34	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
35	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
36	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
38	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	73
39	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
40	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
41	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
42	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
43	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	426	RedCircle	59
44	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
45	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	541	Audion	58
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
47	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
48	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
49	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
50	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
51	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	700	Megaphone	53
52	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
53	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
54	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
55	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
56	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
57	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
58	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
59	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
60	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
61	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
62	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
63	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
65	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	54	BBC	58
66	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
69	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
70	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
71	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
72	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
73	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
74	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
75	Garde-Manger	QUB radio	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	63
76	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
77	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
78	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
79	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
80	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
81	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
82	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	563	Spreaker	74
83	À la poursuite de Gilles Villeneuve	QUB radio et Le Guide de l'auto	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	73
84	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
85	The Boundless Podcast	Dr. Ferrin Peterson	Society & Culture	9	RSS.com	52
86	Au pays des cratères	Élise Ekker-Lambert et Gaël Poirier	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	79
87	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
88	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
89	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
90	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
91	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
92	I Survived The Wild Outdoors	Brad Mathewson	Society & Culture	59	Acast	68
93	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
94	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
95	Pour de vrai	Clémentine C	Society & Culture	56	Spotify for Podcasters	48
96	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
97	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
98	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
99	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
100	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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