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 21 Apr 2025

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04/21/2025

Average data

Episodes: 205

Frequency: every 239 days

Duration: 00:43:51

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
5	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
6	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
7	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
8	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
10	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
12	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
13	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
14	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
15	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
16	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	442	Acast	53
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
18	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
20	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
22	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
24	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
25	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
26	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
27	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
30	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
31	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
33	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
35	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
36	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
37	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
38	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
39	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
40	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
41	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
42	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
43	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
45	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
46	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
47	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
48	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
49	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	386	Audion	58
50	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
51	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
52	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
53	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
55	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
56	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
57	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
58	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
59	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
60	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
61	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
62	This is My Thing	Michael Lee	Society & Culture	17	PRX	79
63	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
64	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
65	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
66	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
67	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
68	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
69	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
70	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
71	Stories for Power	StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP)	Society & Culture	12	Buzzsprout	83
72	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
73	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
74	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
75	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
76	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
77	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
78	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
79	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
80	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
81	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
82	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	68
83	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
84	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
85	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
86	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
87	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	64	Captivate	69
88	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
89	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
90	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
91	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
92	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
93	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
94	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
95	Mallen Baker: Faultlines	Mallen Baker	Society & Culture	599	Simplecast	63
96	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
97	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
98	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
99	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
100	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	673	Acast	69

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