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 Mar 2026

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03/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 184

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:44:45

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
5	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
11	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
16	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
22	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
25	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
27	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
28	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
29	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
30	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
31	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
33	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
34	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
35	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	43
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
37	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
38	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	697	Megaphone	53
40	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
41	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
42	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
43	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
45	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
46	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
47	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
48	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
49	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
50	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
51	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
52	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
53	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
54	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
55	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
56	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
57	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
58	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
59	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
60	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
61	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
62	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
63	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
65	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
67	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
68	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
69	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
70	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
71	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	149	Spotify for Podcasters	52
72	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
73	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
74	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	366	Audion	58
75	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
76	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
77	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
78	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
79	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
80	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
81	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
82	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
83	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
84	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	491	RedCircle	43
85	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
86	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	699	Omny Studio	53
87	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
88	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
89	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
90	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
91	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
92	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
93	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
94	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
95	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
96	Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Erin Elizabeth Hynes of Pina Travels	Society & Culture	158	Audioboom	47
97	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
98	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
99	Emergency Traffic Details temporarily unavailable	Paul Prevost	Society & Culture	110	Spotify for Podcasters	53
100	Pop Mystery Pod	Tess Barker	Society & Culture	93	Simplecast	73

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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