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 May 2026

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05/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 153

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:45:40

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

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

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
3	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
9	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
18	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
21	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
22	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
23	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
25	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
27	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
28	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
29	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
31	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
32	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
33	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
35	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
36	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
37	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
40	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
41	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
42	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
43	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
45	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
46	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
47	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
48	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
49	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
50	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
51	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
52	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
53	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
54	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
55	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
56	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
57	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
58	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
60	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
61	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
62	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
63	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
64	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
65	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
66	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
67	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
68	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
69	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
70	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
71	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
72	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
73	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
74	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
75	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
76	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
77	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	17	Acast	90
78	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	78	Megaphone	62
79	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
82	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
83	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
84	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
85	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
86	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
87	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
88	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
89	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
90	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
91	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
92	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
93	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
94	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
95	The Corrymeela Podcast	Corrymeela	Society & Culture	43	Squarespace	58
96	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
97	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
98	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
99	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
100	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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