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 May 2026

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05/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 182

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:46:13

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
3	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
6	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
9	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
10	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
18	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
20	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
24	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
25	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
27	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
30	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
32	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
33	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
36	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
37	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
39	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
40	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
42	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
43	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
45	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
46	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
47	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
48	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
49	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
50	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
51	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
52	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
53	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
54	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
55	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
56	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
57	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
58	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
59	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
60	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
61	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
62	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
63	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
64	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
65	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
66	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
67	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
68	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
69	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
70	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
71	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
72	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
73	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
74	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
75	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
76	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
77	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
78	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
79	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
80	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
81	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
82	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
83	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
84	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
85	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
86	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
87	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
88	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
89	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
90	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
91	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
92	Mallen Baker: Faultlines	Mallen Baker	Society & Culture	599	Simplecast	63
93	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
94	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
95	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
96	Pourquoi tant de haine?	Léa Clermont-Dion	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	63
97	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
98	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
99	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
100	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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