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 02 Feb 2026

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02/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 177

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:44:01

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (6 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
5	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	156	Acast	43
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	303	Megaphone	42
12	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
15	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
16	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
17	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
20	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
21	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
22	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
24	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	32
27	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
31	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
32	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
33	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
35	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
36	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
37	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
39	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
40	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
41	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
42	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
43	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
44	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
45	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
46	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
47	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
48	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
49	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
50	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
51	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
53	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
54	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
55	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
56	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
57	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
58	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
59	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
60	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
61	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
62	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	370	Audion	58
63	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
64	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1190	Acast	59
65	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
66	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
67	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
68	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
69	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
70	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
71	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
72	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
73	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
74	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
75	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
76	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
77	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
78	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
79	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
80	You Look Like Me	Louise McLoughlin	Society & Culture	16	Spotify for Podcasters	53
81	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
82	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
83	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
84	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
85	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
86	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
87	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
88	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
89	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
90	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
91	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
92	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
93	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
94	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
95	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	400	Buzzsprout	83
96	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
97	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
98	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
99	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
100	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	162	Spotify for Podcasters	28

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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