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 06 Feb 2026

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02/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 149

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:44:59

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

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

3. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (8 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
2	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
3	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
8	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
10	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
11	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
12	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
13	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
16	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
17	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
20	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
25	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
27	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
29	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
31	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
32	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
33	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
34	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	106	BBC	38
35	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
37	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
38	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
39	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
42	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
43	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	702	Megaphone	53
45	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
48	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
49	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
50	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
51	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
53	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
54	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	445	Acast	74
55	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
56	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
58	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
59	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
60	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
61	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
63	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	433	Acast	53
64	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
65	Steven Bartlett - Biography Flash Details temporarily unavailable	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	1	Spreaker	69
66	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
67	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
68	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
69	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
70	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
71	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
72	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
73	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
74	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
75	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
76	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
77	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
78	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
79	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
80	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
81	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
82	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
83	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
84	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
85	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
86	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
87	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
88	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
90	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	The Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	47	Podbean	58
91	Soothing History for Sleep	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	18	Podbean	58
92	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
93	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
94	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
95	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
96	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
97	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
98	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
99	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
100	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	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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