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 26 Apr 2025

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04/26/2025

Average data

Episodes: 189

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:43:39

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 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	489	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
5	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
7	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
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	302	Megaphone	42
10	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
14	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
16	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
17	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
18	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
19	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
20	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
23	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
25	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
26	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
27	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
28	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
30	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
31	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
32	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
33	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
34	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
35	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	697	Megaphone	53
36	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
37	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
40	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
41	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
42	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
43	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
44	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
45	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
46	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
47	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
51	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
52	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
53	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
55	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
56	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
57	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
58	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
61	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
62	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
63	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	366	Audion	58
64	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
65	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
66	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
67	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
68	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
69	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
70	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
71	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
72	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
73	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
74	Neymar (UOL Prime)	UOL	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
75	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
76	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
77	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
78	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
79	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
80	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
81	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
82	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
83	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
84	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
85	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
86	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
87	CGTN Documentary	CGTN Documentary	Society & Culture	0	Unknown	33
88	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
89	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
90	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
91	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
92	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
93	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
94	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
95	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
96	Noche de Lluvia Podcast	Insólita Labs I Lourdes Gómez	Society & Culture	46	Spotify for Podcasters	28
97	The Invisible Hand	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	8	Audioboom	73
98	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
99	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Boohe Baariyaan - By Panjab Boulevard	Panjab Boulevard	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	28

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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