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 Jun 2025

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06/28/2025

Average data

Episodes: 163

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:43:48

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (6 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. BBC (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Megaphone (11 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
2	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
9	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
11	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
13	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
14	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
17	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
19	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	116	Acast	73
20	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
21	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
22	Pills and Power	Pills and Power	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	43
23	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
24	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
25	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
26	Top Comment	BBC	News	102	BBC	48
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
28	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
29	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
30	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
31	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
32	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
33	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	438	Acast	53
34	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
35	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
36	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	58	BBC	58
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	119	BBC	38
39	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
40	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
42	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	448	RedCircle	59
43	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
46	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
47	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
48	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
49	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
50	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
51	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
52	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
53	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
54	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
55	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
56	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
57	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
58	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
59	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
60	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
61	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	383	Audion	58
62	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
63	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
64	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
65	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
66	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
67	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
68	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
69	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
70	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
71	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
72	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
73	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
74	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
75	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
76	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
77	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
78	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
79	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
80	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
81	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
82	老高和小茉最新更新	老高与小茉高速更新	Society & Culture	460	Ximalaya	39
83	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
84	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
85	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
86	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
87	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
88	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
89	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
90	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
91	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	90	Acast	89
92	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
93	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
94	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
95	The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	10	PRX	49
96	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
97	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
98	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
99	Disaster Hour	Ian Terbovich and Olivia Scarano	Society & Culture	89	Spotify for Podcasters	53
100	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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