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 24 Jun 2025

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06/24/2025

Average data

Episodes: 176

Frequency: every 248 days

Duration: 00:47:24

Top 5 authors

1. BBC (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (17 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	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	938	Simplecast	38
5	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	406	Megaphone	63
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	156	Acast	43
8	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	304	Megaphone	42
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	66	Spreaker	84
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	350	ART19	68
13	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
14	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
15	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
16	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
17	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
18	Top Comment	BBC	News	98	BBC	48
19	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
21	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
23	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
24	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
25	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
27	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
29	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	32
30	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
31	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	426	RedCircle	59
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
34	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
35	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
36	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
37	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
39	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
40	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	699	Megaphone	53
41	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
42	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
43	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
44	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
45	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	371	Audion	58
46	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
47	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
48	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
50	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
51	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
52	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
53	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
54	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
55	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
56	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
57	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
58	The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	10	The Washington Post	63
59	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	71	Spreaker	43
60	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	54	BBC	58
61	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
62	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	34	BBC	58
63	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
64	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
65	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
66	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
67	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	441	Acast	74
68	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
69	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
70	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
71	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
72	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	429	Audioboom	48
73	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
74	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
75	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
76	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
77	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1190	Acast	59
78	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
79	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
80	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
81	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
82	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	128	Spotify for Podcasters	38
83	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
84	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
85	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
86	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
87	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
88	The Other Latif	WNYC Studios	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
89	Queer Legends: An Oral History Podcast	Shawn Dearn	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
90	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
91	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
92	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
93	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	559	Spreaker	74
94	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
95	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
96	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	32
97	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
98	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
99	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Causality	The Engineered Network	Society & Culture	64	Unknown	89

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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