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 08 Jan 2026

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01/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 186

Frequency: every 241 days

Duration: 00:47:41

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

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

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
2	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
3	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
8	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
10	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
11	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
18	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
20	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
21	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
22	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
23	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
25	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
27	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
28	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
29	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
31	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
32	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
33	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
35	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
37	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
39	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
40	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
41	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
42	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
43	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
44	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
45	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
46	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
47	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
48	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
49	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
50	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
52	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
53	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
54	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
55	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
56	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
57	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
59	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
60	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
61	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	147	Captivate	38
62	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
63	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
64	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
65	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
66	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
67	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
68	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
69	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
70	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
71	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
72	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
73	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
74	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
75	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
76	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
77	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
78	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
79	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
80	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
81	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
82	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
83	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
84	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
85	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
86	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	22	Spreaker	43
87	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
88	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
89	The Cows Are Mad	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	39
90	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
91	Diggin' Oak Island	Dave McBride	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
92	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
93	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
94	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
95	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
96	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
97	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
98	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
99	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
100	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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