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 10 Mar 2025

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03/10/2025

Average data

Episodes: 182

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:44:53

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
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	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
8	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
12	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
13	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
14	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
15	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
16	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
18	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
19	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
20	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
21	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
23	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
24	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
25	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
29	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
32	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
33	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
34	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
35	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
36	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
37	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
38	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
39	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
40	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
41	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
42	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
43	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
44	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
45	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
46	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
47	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
48	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	374	Audion	58
49	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
50	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
51	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
52	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
53	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
54	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
55	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
56	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
57	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
58	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
59	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
60	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
61	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
62	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
63	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
64	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
65	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
67	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
68	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
71	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
72	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
73	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
74	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
75	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
76	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
77	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
78	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
79	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
80	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
81	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
82	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
83	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
84	Забытые в Америке	Толк	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	69
85	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
86	Jim Carey - Audio Biography	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	1	Spreaker	59
87	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
88	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
89	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	55	BBC	48
90	White Smoke - Pope Leo XIV the American Pope	Caloroga Shark Media	News	132	Spreaker	59
91	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	645	Acast	69
92	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
93	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
94	Call Bethel	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	6	Acast	53
95	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	566	Spreaker	74
97	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
98	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
99	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
100	Rise Up: The Story of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	5	Substack	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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