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 12 May 2025

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05/12/2025

Average data

Episodes: 173

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:46:47

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 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	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
5	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
7	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
8	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
9	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
12	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
14	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
15	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
16	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
18	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
19	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
20	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
21	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
22	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
23	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
30	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
32	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
33	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
34	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
35	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
36	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
37	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
39	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
40	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
41	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
42	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
43	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
44	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
45	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
46	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	427	RedCircle	59
47	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	374	Audion	58
48	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	55	BBC	48
49	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
50	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
51	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
52	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
53	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
56	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
57	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
58	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
59	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
60	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
61	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
63	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
64	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
65	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
66	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
67	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
68	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
69	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
70	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
71	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
72	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
73	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
74	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
75	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
76	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
77	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
78	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
79	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
80	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73
81	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
82	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
83	Privateer Station: War In Ukraine	Privateer	Society & Culture	491	Spreaker	53
84	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
85	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
86	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
87	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
88	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
89	Garde-Manger	QUB radio	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	63
90	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
91	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
92	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
93	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
94	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
95	Meghan-Victim or Villain? #MeghanMarkle	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	1	Spreaker	49
96	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
97	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
98	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
99	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
100	Canary: The Washington Post Investigates	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	12	The Washington Post	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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