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 Apr 2026

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04/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 174

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:46:02

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 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	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
5	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
18	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
19	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
20	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	14	BBC	63
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
22	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	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	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
31	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
32	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	89	Spreaker	43
33	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
34	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
35	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
37	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
38	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
39	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
40	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
41	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
42	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
43	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
44	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
45	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
46	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
47	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
48	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
49	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
50	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
52	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
53	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
54	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
55	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
56	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
57	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
58	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	381	Audion	58
59	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
60	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
61	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
63	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
64	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
65	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
66	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
67	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
68	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
69	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
70	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
71	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
72	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
73	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
74	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
75	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
76	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	438	Acast	53
77	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
78	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
79	La Converse	La Converse	Society & Culture	19	Spreaker	79
80	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43
81	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
82	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
83	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
84	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
85	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
86	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
87	Tête de cochon	Sandrine Deschênes	Society & Culture	48	Simplecast	53
88	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
89	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
90	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
91	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
92	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	99	Omny Studio	89
93	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
94	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	32
95	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
96	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
97	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
98	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
99	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
100	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	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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