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 Jul 2025

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07/09/2025

Average data

Episodes: 160

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:44:23

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (5 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. BBC (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	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	72	Triton Digital	63
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
8	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
9	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
13	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
14	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
15	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
16	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
17	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
19	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	58	BBC	58
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
25	Top Comment	BBC	News	102	BBC	48
26	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
29	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
30	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
31	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
32	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
33	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
35	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
38	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
39	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
40	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
41	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
42	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
43	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
44	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
45	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
46	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
48	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	438	Acast	53
49	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
50	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
51	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
52	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
53	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
54	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
56	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
57	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
58	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
59	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
60	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
61	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
62	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
63	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
64	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
65	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
66	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	381	Audion	58
67	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
68	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
69	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
70	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
71	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	32
72	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
73	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
74	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
75	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
76	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
77	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
78	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
79	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
80	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	447	RedCircle	59
81	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
82	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
83	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
84	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
85	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
86	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
87	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
88	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
89	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	663	Acast	69
90	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
91	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
92	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
93	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	89	Spreaker	43
94	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
95	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
96	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
97	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
98	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
99	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
100	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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