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 29 May 2025

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05/29/2025

Average data

Episodes: 170

Frequency: every 250 days

Duration: 00:45:22

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. BBC (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
7	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
14	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
15	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
16	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
17	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
18	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
19	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
21	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
22	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
23	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
25	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
26	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
29	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
30	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
31	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
33	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
35	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
36	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
37	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
38	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
39	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
42	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
43	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
44	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
45	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
46	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
47	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
48	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
50	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
51	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
52	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
53	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
54	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
55	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
56	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
57	پادکست داستانی ترپند /TarPand	Tarpand	Society & Culture	57	Acast	79
58	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
59	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
60	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
61	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
62	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
63	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
64	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
65	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
66	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
67	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
68	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
69	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
70	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
71	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
72	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
73	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
74	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
75	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
76	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
77	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
78	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
79	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
80	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
81	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
82	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
83	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
84	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
86	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
87	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
88	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
89	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
90	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
91	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
92	Les enfants nés du viol	Maude Petel-Légaré	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	79
93	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
94	Toxic: The Britney Spears Story	Stitcher Studios	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	48
95	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
96	Taylor Swift' and Travis Kelce	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	52	Spreaker	49
97	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
98	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
99	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
100	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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