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 juil. 2026

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07/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:44:55

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
7	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
14	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
15	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
18	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
19	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
20	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
22	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
23	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
24	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
26	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
27	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
28	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
31	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
34	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
35	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
36	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
37	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
38	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
40	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
41	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
42	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
45	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
46	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
47	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
48	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
49	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
50	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
51	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
52	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
53	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
54	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
56	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
57	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
58	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
59	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
60	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
61	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
62	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
63	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
64	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
65	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
66	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
67	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
68	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
69	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
70	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
71	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
72	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
73	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
74	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
75	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
76	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
77	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
78	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
79	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
80	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
81	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
82	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
83	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
84	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
85	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
87	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
88	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
89	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
90	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
91	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
92	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
93	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	85	Acast	89
94	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
95	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
96	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
97	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
98	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
99	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
100	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63

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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