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 Jul 2026

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07/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 174

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:45:44

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
13	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
14	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
15	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
17	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
19	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
20	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
21	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
22	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
23	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
24	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
25	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
26	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
27	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
30	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
31	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
32	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
33	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
35	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
36	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
37	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
38	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
39	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
40	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
41	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
42	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
44	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
45	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
46	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
47	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
48	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
50	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
51	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
52	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
53	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
54	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
55	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
56	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
57	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
58	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
59	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
60	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
61	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
63	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
64	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
65	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
66	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
67	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
68	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
69	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
70	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
71	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
72	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
73	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
74	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	27
75	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
76	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
77	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
78	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
79	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
80	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
81	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
82	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
83	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
84	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
85	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
86	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
87	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
88	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
89	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
90	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
91	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
92	Over the Road	Over the Road & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	21	PRX	79
93	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
94	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
95	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
96	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
97	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
98	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
99	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
100	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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