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 10 Jun 2026

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06/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 159

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:45:00

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
7	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
8	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
12	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
15	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
16	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
19	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
20	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
21	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
22	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
23	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
24	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
25	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
28	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
29	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
30	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
31	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
34	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
35	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
36	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
37	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
40	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
41	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
42	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
43	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
45	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
46	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
48	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
49	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
50	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
51	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
52	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
53	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	Taylor McMahon	@tayjmcm	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	43
55	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
56	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
57	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
58	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
59	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
60	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
61	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
64	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
65	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
66	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
67	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
68	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
69	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
70	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
71	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
72	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
73	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
74	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
75	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
76	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
77	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
78	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
79	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
80	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
81	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
82	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
83	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
84	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
85	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
86	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
87	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
88	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
89	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
90	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
91	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
92	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
93	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
94	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
95	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
96	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	22	Spreaker	43
97	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
98	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
99	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
100	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	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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