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 Apr 2026

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04/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 191

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:48:48

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (20 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (6 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 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	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	380	Spreaker	84
4	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	535	ART19	68
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	312	Megaphone	42
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1014	Simplecast	38
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	228	Acast	79
11	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	151	Acast	73
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	104	BBC	53
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	442	Megaphone	32
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
16	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
18	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	414	Audioboom	62
19	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	70	Acast	83
20	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
21	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
22	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
23	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	21	BBC	63
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
25	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	42
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	235	PRX	79
27	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
28	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
29	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
31	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
32	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
33	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
34	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	193	BBC	38
35	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	106	PRX	64
36	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
37	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	376	Megaphone	43
39	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
40	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
41	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
42	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
43	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
44	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
45	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
46	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	830	Megaphone	53
47	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	465	Acast	74
48	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
49	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
50	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
51	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	154	Spotify for Podcasters	52
52	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	451	Acast	53
53	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
54	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
55	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	984	Megaphone	52
56	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
57	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
58	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
60	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
61	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
62	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
63	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	44	BBC	58
64	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	384	Audion	58
65	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
66	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	217	Acast	79
67	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	11	ART19	63
68	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1204	Acast	59
69	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
72	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
73	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
74	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
75	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
76	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
77	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
78	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
79	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
80	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	529	Spreaker	43
81	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
82	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
83	Tête de cochon	Sandrine Deschênes	Society & Culture	48	Simplecast	53
84	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
85	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	171	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
87	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
88	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
89	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	113	Ximalaya	59
90	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
91	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
92	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
93	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	69
94	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
95	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	276	Megaphone	32
96	The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)	Foreign Policy magazine	Society & Culture	68	Megaphone	58
97	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
98	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
99	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	32
100	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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