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 13 Jun 2025

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06/13/2025

Average data

Episodes: 180

Frequency: every 45 days

Duration: 00:42:39

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
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	1005	Simplecast	38
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
8	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
10	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
12	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
13	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
14	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
15	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
16	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
19	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
21	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
24	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
25	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
27	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
33	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
36	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
37	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
39	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
40	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
41	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
42	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
45	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
46	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
47	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
48	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
49	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
50	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
51	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
52	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
53	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
54	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
55	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
56	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
57	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
58	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
59	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
60	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
64	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
65	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
66	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
67	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
68	Paranoid American	Paranoid American	News	224	RedCircle	53
69	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
70	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
71	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
72	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
73	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
74	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	49
75	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
76	Queer Legends: An Oral History Podcast	Shawn Dearn	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
77	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
78	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
79	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
80	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
81	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
82	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
83	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
84	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
85	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
86	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
87	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
88	Pills and Power	Pills and Power	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	43
89	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
90	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
91	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
92	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
93	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
94	La familia correcta	El País Audio / WePod	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	84
95	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
96	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
97	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
98	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
99	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
100	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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