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 13 Jan 2026

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01/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 218

Frequency: every 247 days

Duration: 00:48:12

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

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

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
6	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
11	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
15	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
19	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
22	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
24	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
25	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
27	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
28	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
29	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
30	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
31	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
33	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
34	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
36	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
37	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
41	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
42	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
43	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
44	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
45	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
46	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
47	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
48	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
49	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
50	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
51	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
52	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
53	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
56	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
57	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
58	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
59	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
60	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
61	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
62	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
63	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
65	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
66	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
67	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
68	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
69	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
70	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
71	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
72	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
73	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
74	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
75	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
76	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
77	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
78	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
79	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
80	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
81	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
82	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
83	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
84	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
85	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
86	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
87	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
88	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
89	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
90	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
91	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
92	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
93	Diggin' Oak Island	Dave McBride	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
94	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
95	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
96	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
97	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
98	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
99	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
100	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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