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 Jun 2026

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06/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 133

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:47:38

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (8 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
9	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
10	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
15	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
20	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
22	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
23	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
24	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
25	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
28	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
29	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
31	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
32	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
33	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
34	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
35	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
36	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
37	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
38	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
39	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
40	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
41	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
42	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
43	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
44	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
45	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
46	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	111	Ximalaya	59
47	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
48	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
50	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
51	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
52	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
54	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
55	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
56	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
57	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
58	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
59	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
60	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
61	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
62	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
63	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
65	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
66	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
69	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
70	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
71	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	227	Acast	43
72	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
73	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
74	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
75	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
76	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
77	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	70	Spotify for Podcasters	28
78	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
79	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	374	Audion	58
80	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
81	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
82	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
83	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	59
84	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
85	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
86	Voice Of GO(r)D	Gord Magill - autonomoustruckers.substack.com	Society & Culture	132	Spotify for Podcasters	63
87	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	21	Captivate	73
88	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
90	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
91	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
92	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
93	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
94	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
95	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
96	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
97	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
98	Iconic Origins: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Paramount Pictures	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	48
99	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
100	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	102	Acast	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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