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 11 Apr 2026

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04/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 150

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:44:57

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (6 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
2	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
3	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
19	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
20	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
23	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
25	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
26	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
28	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
30	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
31	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
33	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
34	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
35	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
36	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
37	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
38	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
39	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
40	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
41	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
42	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
43	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
44	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
45	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
47	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
48	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
49	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
50	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
51	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
52	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
53	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
54	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
55	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
56	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
57	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
58	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
59	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
60	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
61	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
62	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
63	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
64	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
65	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
66	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
67	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
68	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
69	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
70	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
71	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
72	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
73	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
74	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
75	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
76	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
77	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
78	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
79	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
80	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
81	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
82	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
83	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
84	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
85	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
87	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
88	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
89	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
90	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
91	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
92	The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)	Foreign Policy magazine	Society & Culture	68	Megaphone	58
93	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
94	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
95	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
96	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
97	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
98	Familles en transition / Families in Transition	La Liberté	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
99	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
100	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63

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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