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 Jul 2026

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07/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 197

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:44:57

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
7	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
12	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
13	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
14	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	271	WideOrbit	48
15	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
16	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
20	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
22	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
23	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
24	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
25	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
26	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
27	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
31	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
32	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
33	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
34	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
35	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
36	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
37	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
38	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
39	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
40	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
41	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
42	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
43	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
44	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
45	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
46	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
47	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
48	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
49	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
50	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
51	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
52	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
53	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
54	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
55	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
56	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
57	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
58	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
59	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
60	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
61	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
62	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
63	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
64	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
66	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
67	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
68	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
71	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
72	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
73	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
74	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
75	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
76	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
77	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
78	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
79	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
80	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
81	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
82	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
83	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
84	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
85	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
86	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
87	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
88	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
89	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
90	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
91	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
92	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
93	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
94	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
95	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
96	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
97	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
98	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	235	Acast	43
99	Inside the Reading Gap	Thinking Reading	Society & Culture	9	Podbean	48
100	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	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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