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 30 Jun 2025

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06/30/2025

Average data

Episodes: 180

Frequency: every 238 days

Duration: 00:45:50

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (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	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	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	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
14	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
15	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
16	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
18	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
20	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	438	Acast	53
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
22	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
23	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
25	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
26	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
27	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
31	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
33	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
34	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
35	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
36	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
37	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
38	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
39	Top Comment	BBC	News	102	BBC	48
40	Pills and Power	Pills and Power	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	43
41	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
42	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
43	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
44	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
45	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
46	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	58	BBC	58
47	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
48	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
49	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
50	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
51	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
52	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
53	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
54	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
55	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
56	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
57	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
58	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	89	Spreaker	43
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	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
62	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
63	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	381	Audion	58
64	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
65	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
66	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
67	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
68	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
69	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
70	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
71	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
72	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	447	RedCircle	59
73	Extraordinary Evidence \| ESP Is Real	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
74	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
75	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
76	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
77	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
78	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
79	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
80	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	298	Audioboom	58
81	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
82	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
83	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
84	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
85	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
86	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
87	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
88	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
89	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	663	Acast	69
90	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
91	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
92	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
93	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
94	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
95	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
96	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
97	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
98	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
99	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
100	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69

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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