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 14 Jun 2025

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06/14/2025

Average data

Episodes: 193

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:44:59

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (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	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
7	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
9	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
11	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
12	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
14	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
15	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
19	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
21	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
24	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
25	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
26	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	101	BBC	38
27	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
28	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
29	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
30	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
35	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
36	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
37	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
38	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	428	RedCircle	59
39	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
40	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	375	Audion	58
41	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
42	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
45	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
46	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
47	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
48	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
49	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
50	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
51	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
52	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
53	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
54	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
55	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
56	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
57	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
58	Les enfants nés du viol	Maude Petel-Légaré	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	79
59	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
60	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
61	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
62	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
63	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
64	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
65	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
66	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
67	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
68	Paranoid American	Paranoid American	News	224	RedCircle	53
70	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
71	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
72	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
73	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
74	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
75	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
76	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
77	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
78	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
79	Mallen Baker: Faultlines	Mallen Baker	Society & Culture	599	Simplecast	63
80	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
81	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
82	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
83	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
84	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
85	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
86	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
87	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
88	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
89	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
90	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
91	JOURNEY	Ryan Wolf	Society & Culture	13	Acast	73
92	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
93	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
94	Le dernier vol de Raymond Boulanger : Révélations	iHeartRadio	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
95	搞钱学姐	搞钱学姐	Society & Culture	86	Ximalaya	59
96	Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine	Minnesota Native News	Society & Culture	245	Transistor	63
97	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
98	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
99	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
100	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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