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 19 Jun 2025

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06/19/2025

Average data

Episodes: 191

Frequency: every 241 days

Duration: 00:47:41

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. Wavland (2 shows)

5. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. BBC (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
2	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
6	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	309	Megaphone	42
8	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	23	RSS.com	52
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	409	Megaphone	63
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
13	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
15	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
16	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
17	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
18	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	438	Megaphone	32
20	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
21	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	435	Acast	53
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
23	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
24	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
25	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	703	Megaphone	53
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
27	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
28	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
29	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
30	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	267	Spreaker	69
32	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
33	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
34	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	111	BBC	38
35	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
36	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
37	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
38	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
40	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
41	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	439	RedCircle	59
42	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
43	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
44	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
45	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
46	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
47	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
48	Spoiled Fruit: Faith & Power	John Williamson	Society & Culture	21	RedCircle	73
49	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
50	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
51	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	378	Audion	58
52	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
53	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
54	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
55	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
56	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
57	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
58	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
59	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
60	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
61	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
62	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
63	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
64	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
65	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
66	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	57	BBC	48
67	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
68	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
69	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
70	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
71	Disaster Hour	Ian Terbovich and Olivia Scarano	Society & Culture	89	Spotify for Podcasters	53
72	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
73	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
74	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
75	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	37	Octopus	59
76	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	82	Spreaker	43
77	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
78	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1199	Acast	59
79	C'est arrivé le...	QUB radio	Society & Culture	4	Omny Studio	59
80	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	446	Acast	74
81	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
82	Kate and Kathleen - A podcast about humans and horses	Kathleen Beckham and KATE SANDEL	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	52
83	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
84	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
85	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	62
86	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
87	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
88	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
89	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	571	Spreaker	74
90	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
91	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	129	Spotify for Podcasters	38
92	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
93	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
94	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
95	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
96	Más Allá del Rosa	Jessica Fernández	Society & Culture	234	Acast	79
97	Trolled	Aoife Moore	Society & Culture	8	Acast	53
98	Strangeology	Strangeology Podcast	Society & Culture	100	Spreaker	59
99	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
100	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79

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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