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 04 Mar 2026

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03/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 161

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:44:20

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (16 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
10	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
13	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
16	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
17	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
21	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
22	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
23	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
25	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
26	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
28	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
30	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
31	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
32	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
33	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
34	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
36	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
37	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
38	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
40	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
41	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
42	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
43	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
45	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
46	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
47	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
48	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
49	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
50	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
51	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
52	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
53	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
54	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
56	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
57	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
58	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
59	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
60	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
61	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
62	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
63	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
65	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
66	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
67	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
68	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
69	Made It Here	VoixCollective	Society & Culture	2	Spotify for Podcasters	43
70	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
71	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
72	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
73	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
74	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
75	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
76	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
77	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
78	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
79	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
80	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
81	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
82	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
83	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
84	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
85	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
86	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
87	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
88	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
89	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
90	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
91	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
92	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
93	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
94	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
95	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
96	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
97	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
98	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
99	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Pop Mystery Pod	Tess Barker	Society & Culture	93	Simplecast	73

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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