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 11 May 2025

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05/11/2025

Average data

Episodes: 181

Frequency: every 239 days

Duration: 00:47:19

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. BBC (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Buzzsprout (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
5	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
7	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
8	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
9	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
10	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
15	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
18	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
24	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
25	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
26	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
28	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
30	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
31	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
32	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
33	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
34	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
36	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
38	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
39	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - animé par Marina Orsini Details temporarily unavailable	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - Animé par Marina Orsini	Society & Culture	45	Audioboom	68
40	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
41	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
42	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
43	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
44	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
45	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
47	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
48	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
49	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
51	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	457	RedCircle	59
52	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
55	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
56	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
57	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
58	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
59	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
60	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
61	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
62	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
63	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
64	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
65	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
66	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
69	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
70	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
71	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
72	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
73	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
74	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
75	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
76	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
77	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
78	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
79	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
80	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
81	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
82	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
83	Gaia Unexplained	Gaia.com	Society & Culture	36	Buzzsprout	58
84	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
86	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
87	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
88	Terreau fertile	Nourrir notre monde Haute-Gaspésie	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	79
89	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
90	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
91	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
92	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
93	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
94	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	582	Spreaker	74
95	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
96	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
97	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
98	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
99	Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast	Unincarcerated Productions	Society & Culture	25	Buzzsprout	51
100	À la poursuite de Gilles Villeneuve	QUB radio et Le Guide de l'auto	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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