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 Feb 2026

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02/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 151

Frequency: every 45 days

Duration: 00:44:22

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
10	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
11	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
19	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
22	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
27	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
28	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
31	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
32	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
33	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
35	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
36	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
37	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
40	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
41	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
42	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
43	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
44	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
45	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
46	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
47	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
48	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
49	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
50	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
51	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
53	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
55	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
57	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
58	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
59	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
60	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
61	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
62	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
63	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
64	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
65	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
66	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
67	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
68	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
69	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
70	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
71	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
72	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
73	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
74	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
75	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
76	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
77	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
78	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
79	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
80	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
81	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
82	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
83	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
84	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
85	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
86	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
87	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
88	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
89	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
90	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
91	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
92	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
93	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
94	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
95	I Survived The Wild Outdoors	Brad Mathewson	Society & Culture	59	Acast	68
96	Soothing History for Sleep	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	18	Podbean	58
97	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
98	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - animé par Marina Orsini Details temporarily unavailable	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - Animé par Marina Orsini	Society & Culture	45	Audioboom	68
99	Steven Bartlett - Biography Flash Details temporarily unavailable	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	1	Spreaker	69
100	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59

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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