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 27 May 2025

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05/27/2025

Average data

Episodes: 178

Frequency: every 241 days

Duration: 00:43:53

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (5 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
3	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
5	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
6	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
7	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
14	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
15	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
16	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
18	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
19	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
20	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
21	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
22	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
23	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
24	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
25	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
26	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
29	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
30	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
32	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
33	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
34	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
35	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
36	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
37	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
38	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
42	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
43	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
44	پادکست داستانی ترپند /TarPand	Tarpand	Society & Culture	57	Acast	79
45	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
46	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
47	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
48	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
49	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
50	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
51	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
52	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
55	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
56	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
57	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
58	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
59	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
60	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
61	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
62	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
63	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
64	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
65	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
67	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
68	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	674	Acast	69
69	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	456	RedCircle	59
70	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
73	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
74	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
75	The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight	Somethin' Else / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	26	Megaphone	83
76	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
77	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
78	Les enfants nés du viol	Maude Petel-Légaré	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	79
79	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
80	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
81	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
82	Escafandro	Rádio Escafandro	Society & Culture	212	Spotify for Podcasters	38
83	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
84	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
85	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
86	Alabama Astronaut	Abe Partridge & Ferrill Gibbs	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	63
87	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
88	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
89	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
90	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
91	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
92	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
93	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
94	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	580	Spreaker	74
95	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
96	Searching for America with Robyn Curnow	Robyn Curnow, Bleav	Society & Culture	58	Simplecast	58
97	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - animé par Marina Orsini Details temporarily unavailable	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - Animé par Marina Orsini	Society & Culture	45	Audioboom	68
98	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
99	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
100	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84

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