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 28 Apr 2025

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04/28/2025

Average data

Episodes: 197

Frequency: every 248 days

Duration: 00:45:10

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (6 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. BBC (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 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	408	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
6	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
11	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
13	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
14	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
15	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
16	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
17	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
18	Penny Royal	Nathan Isaac	Society & Culture	19	Buzzsprout	58
19	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
23	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
24	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
25	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
30	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	702	Megaphone	53
32	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
33	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
34	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
35	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
36	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
37	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
38	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	105	BBC	38
40	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
41	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
42	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
43	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
44	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
45	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
46	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
47	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
48	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
49	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
50	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
51	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
52	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
53	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
54	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	377	Audion	58
55	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
56	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
57	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
58	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
60	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
61	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
62	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
63	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
64	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
65	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
66	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
67	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
68	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
69	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	48
70	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
71	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
72	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
73	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
74	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
75	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
76	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
77	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
78	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
79	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
80	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
81	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
82	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
83	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
84	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
85	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
86	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
87	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
88	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
89	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
90	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	432	RedCircle	59
91	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
92	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
93	Neymar (UOL Prime)	UOL	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
94	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
95	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
96	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
97	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
98	Par-delà la 138	Éloïse Demers Pinard et Nicolas Lachapelle	Society & Culture	2	Transistor	84
99	Kabul Falling	Brazen	Society & Culture	17	Megaphone	84
100	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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