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 Jun 2026

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06/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:45:11

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
7	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
10	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
11	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
15	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
18	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
19	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
21	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
23	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
24	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
29	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
31	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
33	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
34	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
35	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
37	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
38	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
39	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
42	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
43	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
45	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
46	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
47	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
48	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
49	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
50	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
51	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
52	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
53	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
55	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
56	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
57	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
58	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
59	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
60	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
61	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
62	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
63	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
64	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
65	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
66	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
67	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
68	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
69	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
70	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
71	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
72	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
73	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
74	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
75	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
76	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
79	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
80	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
81	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
82	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
83	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
84	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
85	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
86	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
87	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
88	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
89	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
90	Pop Mystery Pod	Tess Barker	Society & Culture	93	Simplecast	73
91	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
92	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
93	Taylor McMahon	@tayjmcm	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	43
94	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
95	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
96	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
97	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
98	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
99	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
100	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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