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 12 Jan 2026

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01/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 182

Frequency: every 243 days

Duration: 00:45:32

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (6 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

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

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
5	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
10	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
13	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
14	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
17	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
19	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
23	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
24	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
26	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
27	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
29	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
30	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
36	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
37	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
38	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
39	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
40	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
41	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
42	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
43	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
44	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
46	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
47	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
48	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
50	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
51	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
52	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
53	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
54	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
55	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
56	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
57	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
58	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
59	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
60	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
61	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
62	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
63	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
65	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
66	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
67	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
68	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
69	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
70	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
71	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
72	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
73	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
74	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
75	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
76	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
77	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
78	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
79	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
80	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
81	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
82	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
83	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
84	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
85	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
86	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
87	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
88	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
89	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
90	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
91	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
92	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
93	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
94	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
95	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
96	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
97	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
98	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	147	Captivate	38
99	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
100	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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