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 Apr 2026

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04/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 138

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:44:04

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (6 shows)

5. BBC (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
6	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
13	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
18	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
19	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
22	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
26	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
28	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
29	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
30	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
31	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
34	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
35	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
36	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
37	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
40	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
41	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
42	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
44	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
45	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
46	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
47	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
48	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
49	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
50	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
51	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
53	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
54	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
55	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
56	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
57	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
58	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
59	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
60	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
61	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
62	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
63	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
64	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
65	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
66	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
67	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
69	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
70	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
71	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
72	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
73	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
74	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
75	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
76	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
77	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
78	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
79	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
80	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
81	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
83	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
84	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
85	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
86	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	17	Acast	90
88	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
89	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
90	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
91	Reasons We Serve: Police Careers & Officer Experience	Reasons We Serve	Society & Culture	188	Spreaker	59
92	Stories Lost	Stories Lost	Society & Culture	99	Spotify for Podcasters	33
93	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
94	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
95	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	113	Megaphone	68
96	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	78	Megaphone	62
97	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
98	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
99	Causality	The Engineered Network	Society & Culture	64	Unknown	89
100	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	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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