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 Mar 2026

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03/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 156

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:45:43

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
3	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
4	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
11	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
12	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	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	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
21	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
23	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
26	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
27	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
28	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
29	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
32	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
33	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
34	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
35	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
37	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
38	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
41	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
42	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
43	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
44	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
45	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
49	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
50	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
51	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
52	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
53	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
55	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
56	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
57	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	120	Simplecast	53
58	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
59	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
60	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
61	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
62	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
63	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
64	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
65	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
66	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
67	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
68	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
69	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
70	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
71	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
72	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
73	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
74	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
75	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
76	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
77	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
78	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
79	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
80	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
81	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
82	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
83	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
84	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
85	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
86	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
87	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
88	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
89	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
90	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
91	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
92	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
93	The Silenced Truth	Carolyn McCulley \| Citygate Communications	Society & Culture	2	Buzzsprout	73
94	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
95	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
96	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
97	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
98	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
99	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
100	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	89	Buzzsprout	57

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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