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 14 Jan 2026

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01/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 218

Frequency: every 241 days

Duration: 00:48:20

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

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

4. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
4	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
10	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
13	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
14	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
19	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
20	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
21	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
23	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
25	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
26	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
27	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
28	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
29	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
30	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
31	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
32	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
33	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
34	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
35	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
36	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
37	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
39	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
40	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
41	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
42	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
43	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
45	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
46	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
47	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
48	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
49	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
50	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
51	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
52	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
55	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
56	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
57	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
58	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
59	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
60	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
61	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
62	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
63	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
64	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
65	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
66	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
67	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
68	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
69	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
70	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
71	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
72	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
73	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
74	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
75	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
76	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
77	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
78	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
79	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
80	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
81	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
82	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
83	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
84	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
85	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
86	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
87	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
88	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
89	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
90	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
91	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
92	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
93	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
94	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
95	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
96	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
97	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
98	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
99	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	580	Spreaker	74
100	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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