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 May 2026

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05/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 148

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:46:06

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (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	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
7	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
15	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
17	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
19	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
21	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
23	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
26	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
27	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
28	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
29	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
30	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
31	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
34	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
36	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
38	Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Erin Elizabeth Hynes of Pina Travels	Society & Culture	158	Audioboom	47
39	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
40	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
41	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
45	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
46	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
47	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
48	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
49	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
50	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
51	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
52	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
53	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
55	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
56	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
57	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
58	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
59	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
60	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
61	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
62	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
63	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
64	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
65	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
66	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
69	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
70	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
71	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
72	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
73	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
74	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
75	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
76	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
77	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
78	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
79	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
80	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
81	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
82	Diggin' Oak Island	Dave McBride	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
83	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
84	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
85	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
86	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
87	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
88	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
89	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
90	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
91	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
92	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
93	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
94	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
95	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
96	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
97	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
98	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
99	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
100	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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