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 Jun 2025

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06/29/2025

Average data

Episodes: 190

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:43:17

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. CBC (3 shows)

5. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Omny Studio (13 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	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	310	Megaphone	42
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
12	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
13	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
16	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
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	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
20	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
21	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
24	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
25	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
26	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
27	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
28	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
31	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
32	Top Comment	BBC	News	102	BBC	48
33	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	438	Acast	53
34	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
36	Pills and Power	Pills and Power	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	43
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
38	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
39	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
40	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
41	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	58	BBC	58
42	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
43	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
47	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
48	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
49	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
51	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
52	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
55	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	381	Audion	58
56	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
57	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
58	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
59	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
60	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	447	RedCircle	59
61	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
62	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
63	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
64	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
65	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
66	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
67	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
68	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
69	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	90	Acast	89
70	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
71	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
72	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
73	The Anunnaki Connection	Jason Abadi	Society & Culture	103	Spotify for Podcasters	43
74	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	89	Spreaker	43
75	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
76	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
77	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
78	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
79	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	663	Acast	69
80	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
81	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
82	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
83	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
84	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
85	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
86	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
87	Saving Apollo 13 👨‍🚀	Forensic Engineer Sean Brady — from Brady Heywood	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	69
88	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
89	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	274	Megaphone	32
90	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
91	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
92	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	36	Octopus	59
93	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
94	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
95	Queries	TVO	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	59
96	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
97	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
98	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
99	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
100	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	573	Spreaker	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

The podcast landscape in Canada is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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