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 05 Jan 2026

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01/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 184

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:47:50

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Simplecast (7 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Spreaker (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
3	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
4	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
10	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
11	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
12	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
17	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
20	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
25	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
28	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
29	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
30	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
31	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
32	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
33	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
34	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
35	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
36	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
37	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
38	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
39	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
40	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
41	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
42	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
43	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
44	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
45	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
46	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
47	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
48	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
50	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
52	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
54	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
56	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
57	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
58	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
59	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
60	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
61	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
63	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
64	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
65	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
66	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
67	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
68	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
69	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
70	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
71	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
72	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
73	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
74	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
75	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
76	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
77	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
78	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
79	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
80	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
81	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
82	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
83	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
84	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
85	Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast	Erin Elizabeth Hynes of Pina Travels	Society & Culture	158	Audioboom	47
86	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
87	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
88	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
89	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
90	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
91	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
92	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
93	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
94	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
95	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
96	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
97	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
98	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
99	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
100	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43

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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