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 Jun 2025

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06/12/2025

Average data

Episodes: 165

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:45:08

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (10 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	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	350	ART19	68
7	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
9	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
11	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
12	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
14	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
15	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
16	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
19	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
20	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
21	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
22	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
23	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
25	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
28	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
30	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
31	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
32	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
34	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	369	Audion	58
35	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
36	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
37	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
39	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
40	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
41	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
42	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
43	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
44	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
45	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
46	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
47	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
48	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
49	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
50	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
51	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
52	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
53	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
54	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
55	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
56	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
57	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
58	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
59	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
60	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
61	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
62	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
63	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
64	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
65	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
66	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
67	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
68	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
69	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
70	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
71	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
72	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	49
73	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
74	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
75	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
76	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
79	咸柠七	巨有文化	Society & Culture	257	Ximalaya	48
80	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
81	Queer Legends: An Oral History Podcast	Shawn Dearn	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
82	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
83	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
84	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
85	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
86	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
87	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
88	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
89	Le dernier vol de Raymond Boulanger : Révélations	iHeartRadio	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
90	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	636	Acast	69
91	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
92	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
93	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
94	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
95	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
96	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
97	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
98	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
99	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
100	Au pays des cratères	Élise Ekker-Lambert et Gaël Poirier	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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