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 09 Jan 2026

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01/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 191

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:47:34

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. CBC (2 shows)

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

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (8 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. PRX (6 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	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
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	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
15	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
18	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
21	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
22	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
24	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
25	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
26	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
27	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
28	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
32	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
33	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
37	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
39	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
40	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
41	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
42	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
43	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
44	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
45	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
47	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
48	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
49	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
52	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
53	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
54	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
56	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
57	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
59	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
60	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
61	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
62	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
63	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
64	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
65	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
66	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
67	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
68	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
69	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
70	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
71	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
72	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
75	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
76	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
77	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
78	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
79	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
80	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
81	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
82	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
83	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
84	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	147	Captivate	38
85	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
86	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
87	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
88	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
89	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
90	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
91	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
92	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
93	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
94	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
95	Diggin' Oak Island	Dave McBride	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
96	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
97	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
98	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
99	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
100	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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