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 May 2026

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05/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 159

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:43:30

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (20 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
6	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
8	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
11	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
13	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
20	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
23	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
26	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
28	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
29	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	16	BBC	63
30	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
32	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
34	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
35	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
36	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
40	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
41	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
42	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
43	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
44	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
45	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
46	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
47	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
48	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
49	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
50	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
51	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
52	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
54	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
55	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
56	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
57	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
58	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
59	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
60	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
61	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
64	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
65	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
66	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
67	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
68	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
69	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
70	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
71	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
72	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
73	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
74	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
75	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
76	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
77	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
78	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
79	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
80	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
81	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
82	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
83	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
84	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
85	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
86	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
87	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
88	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
89	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
90	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
91	Mallen Baker: Faultlines	Mallen Baker	Society & Culture	599	Simplecast	63
92	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
93	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	93	Megaphone	63
94	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
95	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
96	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
97	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
98	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
99	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
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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