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 Jun 2025

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06/21/2025

Average data

Episodes: 204

Frequency: every 246 days

Duration: 00:45:20

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Wavland (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (17 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
5	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
6	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
12	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
13	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
14	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
18	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
22	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
23	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
26	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
29	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
31	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
32	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	101	BBC	38
34	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	428	RedCircle	59
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
36	The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	10	The Washington Post	63
37	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
38	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
39	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
40	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
41	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
42	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
43	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
44	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	55	BBC	48
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
47	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	375	Audion	58
48	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
49	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
50	I Am Refocused Radio	I Am Refocused Radio	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	64
51	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
52	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
53	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
54	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
55	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
56	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
57	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	40	Libsyn	53
58	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
59	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
60	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
61	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
62	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
63	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
65	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
66	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
69	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
70	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
71	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
72	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
73	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
74	Spoiled Fruit: Faith & Power	John Williamson	Society & Culture	21	RedCircle	73
75	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
76	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
77	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
78	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
79	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
80	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
81	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
82	Le dernier vol de Raymond Boulanger : Révélations	iHeartRadio	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
83	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
84	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
85	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
86	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
87	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
88	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
89	Paranoid American	Paranoid American	News	224	RedCircle	53
90	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
91	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
92	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
93	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
94	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
95	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
96	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
97	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
98	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	128	Spotify for Podcasters	38
99	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
100	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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