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 May 2026

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05/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 142

Frequency: every 46 days

Duration: 00:46:05

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
3	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
10	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
16	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
17	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
19	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
20	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
23	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
24	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
25	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
26	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
27	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
28	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
29	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
31	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
32	Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast	Erin Elizabeth Hynes of Pina Travels	Society & Culture	158	Audioboom	47
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
35	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
36	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
37	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
39	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
40	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
41	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
42	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
43	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
45	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
46	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
47	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
49	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
50	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
51	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
52	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
53	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
54	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
55	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
56	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
57	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
58	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
59	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
60	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
62	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
63	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
64	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
65	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
66	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
67	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
68	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
69	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
70	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
71	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
72	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
73	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
74	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
75	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
76	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
77	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
78	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
79	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
80	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
81	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
82	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
83	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
84	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
85	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
86	The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome	Brazen	Society & Culture	21	PRX	79
87	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
88	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
89	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
90	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
91	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
92	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
93	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
94	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
95	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
96	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan	Society & Culture	375	Blubrry Podcasting	43
97	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
98	Migrating to America: A Dream Worth Dying For	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	48
99	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
100	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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