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 18 May 2025

Country

Main category

Sub category

Date

05/18/2025

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:45:43

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. QUB radio (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
7	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
8	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
9	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
10	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
11	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
12	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
15	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
16	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
17	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
20	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
21	Les enfants nés du viol	Maude Petel-Légaré	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	79
22	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
23	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
26	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
27	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
28	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
29	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
31	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
32	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
33	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
35	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
36	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
37	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
38	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
39	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
40	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
41	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
42	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
43	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
44	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
45	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
46	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
47	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
48	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
49	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
50	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
51	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
52	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
53	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	426	RedCircle	59
54	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
55	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
56	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	32
57	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
58	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
59	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
60	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
61	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
62	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
63	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
64	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
65	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
66	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
67	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
68	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
69	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
70	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
71	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
72	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
73	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
74	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
75	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
76	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
77	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
78	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
79	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	55	BBC	58
82	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
83	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
84	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
85	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
86	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
87	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
88	Not News 〜ニュースにならない記録たち〜	泉秀一・おさつ	Society & Culture	17	Spotify for Podcasters	43
89	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
90	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	565	Spreaker	74
92	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
93	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	644	Acast	69
94	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
95	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
96	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
97	Garde-Manger	QUB radio	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	63
98	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
99	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
100	Métis Speaker Series	Metis Nation British Columbia	Society & Culture	63	RedCircle	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

The podcast landscape in Canada is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

For those interested in podcast creation, knowing the best hosting services and the most successful authors in your category can provide a competitive edge. Whether you're looking to start your own show or just want to see what's popular, this ranking offers a valuable snapshot of the podcasting world in Canada.
Explore more data on podcast rankings by diving into other categories and countries, and stay ahead in the ever-changing podcast scene.

Previous charts Next charts

About Methodology Contact Support me Privacy Policy Legal Notice