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 01 Feb 2026

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02/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 180

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:41:57

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
2	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
7	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
9	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
12	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
13	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
14	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
17	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
19	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
22	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
24	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
25	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
28	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
31	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
32	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
33	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
34	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
35	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
36	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
39	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
40	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
41	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
42	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
43	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
44	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
45	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
47	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
48	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
49	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
50	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
51	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
52	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
54	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
55	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
56	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
57	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
58	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
59	You Look Like Me	Louise McLoughlin	Society & Culture	16	Spotify for Podcasters	53
60	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
61	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
62	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
63	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
64	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
65	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
66	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
67	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
68	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
69	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
70	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
71	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
72	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
73	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
74	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
75	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
76	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
77	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
78	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
79	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
80	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
81	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
82	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
83	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
84	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
85	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
86	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
87	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
88	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
89	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
90	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
91	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
93	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
94	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
95	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
96	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
97	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
98	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
99	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
100	Steven Bartlett - Biography Flash Details temporarily unavailable	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	1	Spreaker	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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