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 Mar 2026

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03/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 154

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:46:56

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
6	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
7	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
14	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
15	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
18	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
19	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
23	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
24	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
25	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
26	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
27	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
29	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
30	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
31	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	17	Acast	90
32	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
33	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
34	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
37	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
38	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
39	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
40	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
41	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
42	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
43	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
44	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
45	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
46	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
49	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
50	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
51	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
52	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
53	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
56	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
57	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
58	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
59	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
60	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
61	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
62	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
63	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
64	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
65	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
66	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
67	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
68	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
69	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
70	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
71	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
72	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
73	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
74	Reflections	Accessible Media Inc.	Society & Culture	81	Simplecast	83
75	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
76	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
77	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
78	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
79	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
80	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
81	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
82	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
83	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
84	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
85	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
86	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
87	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
88	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
89	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
90	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
91	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
92	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
93	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
94	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
95	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
96	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74
97	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
98	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
99	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
100	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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