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 Apr 2026

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04/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 178

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:47:07

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (6 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
3	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
11	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
16	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
18	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
19	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
20	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
21	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
22	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
23	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
24	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
25	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
27	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
29	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
30	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
32	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
35	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
36	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
37	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
38	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
39	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
40	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
41	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
42	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
43	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
44	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
45	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
47	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
48	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
49	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
52	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
53	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
54	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
55	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
57	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
58	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
59	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
60	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
61	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
62	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
63	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
64	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
65	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
66	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
67	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
69	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
72	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
73	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
74	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
75	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
76	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
77	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
78	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
79	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
80	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
81	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
83	The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)	Foreign Policy magazine	Society & Culture	68	Megaphone	58
84	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
85	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
86	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
87	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
88	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	113	Ximalaya	59
89	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
90	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
91	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
92	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
93	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
94	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
95	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
96	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
97	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
98	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
99	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
100	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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