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 Jun 2025

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06/18/2025

Average data

Episodes: 197

Frequency: every 243 days

Duration: 00:45:10

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
2	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
7	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
12	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
14	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
15	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
16	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
18	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
19	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
20	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
21	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
23	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
25	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
27	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
29	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
31	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
32	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
33	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
34	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
35	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
36	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
37	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
38	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
39	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
40	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
41	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
42	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	48
43	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
46	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
47	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
48	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
49	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
50	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
52	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
53	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
54	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
55	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
56	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
57	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
58	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
59	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
60	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
61	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74
62	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	129	Spotify for Podcasters	38
63	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	431	RedCircle	59
64	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
65	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
66	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
67	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
68	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
69	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
70	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
71	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
72	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
73	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
74	Spoiled Fruit: Faith & Power	John Williamson	Society & Culture	21	RedCircle	73
75	Garde-Manger	QUB radio	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	63
76	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
77	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
78	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
79	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
80	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
81	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
82	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
83	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
84	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
85	Disaster Hour	Ian Terbovich and Olivia Scarano	Society & Culture	89	Spotify for Podcasters	53
86	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
87	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
88	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
89	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
90	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
91	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
92	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
93	YQG In Bloom	Tracy Martens	Society & Culture	119	RSS.com	68
94	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
95	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
96	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
97	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
98	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
99	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
100	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49

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.

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