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 03 Apr 2026

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04/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 180

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:47:08

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 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	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	73
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
5	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
12	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
17	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
20	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
21	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
23	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
27	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
28	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
30	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
31	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	43
32	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
33	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
34	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
35	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
36	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	105	BBC	38
38	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
39	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
40	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
41	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
42	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
43	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
44	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
46	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
47	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
48	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
49	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	702	Megaphone	53
50	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
51	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
52	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
53	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
55	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
56	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
57	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
58	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
59	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
60	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	377	Audion	58
61	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
62	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
63	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
64	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
66	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
67	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
68	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
69	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
70	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
71	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
72	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
73	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
74	Tête de cochon	Sandrine Deschênes	Society & Culture	48	Simplecast	53
75	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
76	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
77	The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)	Foreign Policy magazine	Society & Culture	68	Megaphone	58
78	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
79	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
80	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
81	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
83	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
84	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
85	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
86	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
87	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
88	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
89	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
90	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
91	Steven Bartlett - Biography Flash Details temporarily unavailable	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	1	Spreaker	69
92	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	111	Ximalaya	59
93	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	125	Simplecast	53
94	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
96	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
97	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
98	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
99	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	271	Megaphone	32
100	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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