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 Mar 2026

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03/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 150

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:47:05

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. CBC (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
9	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
12	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
16	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
17	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
18	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
22	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
25	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
27	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
29	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
30	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
31	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
32	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
33	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
34	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
35	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
36	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
38	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
39	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
40	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
41	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
42	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
45	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
46	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
48	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
49	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
50	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
51	Après-coups	Après-coups	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	58
52	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
53	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
54	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
56	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
57	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
58	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
59	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
60	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
61	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
62	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
63	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
64	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
65	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
66	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
67	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
68	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
69	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
70	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
71	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
72	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
73	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
74	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
75	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
76	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
77	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
78	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
79	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
80	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
81	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
82	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
83	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
84	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
85	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
86	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
87	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
88	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
89	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
90	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
91	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
92	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
93	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
94	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
95	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
96	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
97	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
98	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
99	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
100	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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