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 15 May 2026

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05/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 177

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:44:53

Top 5 authors

1. Sony Music Entertainment (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 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	160	Acast	43
3	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
7	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
8	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
9	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
10	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
15	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
20	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
23	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
24	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	120	BBC	38
25	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
26	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
27	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
28	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
32	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
33	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
35	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
36	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
37	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
38	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	14	BBC	63
39	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
41	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
42	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
43	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
44	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
45	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
47	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
48	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	449	Acast	74
49	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
50	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
51	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	383	Audion	58
52	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
53	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
54	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
55	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
57	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
58	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
59	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
60	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
61	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
62	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
63	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
64	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
65	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
66	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
67	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
68	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
69	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
70	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
71	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
72	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	528	Spreaker	43
73	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
74	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
75	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
76	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
77	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
78	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
79	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
80	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
81	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
82	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
83	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
84	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
85	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	170	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
87	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
88	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
89	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
90	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
91	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
92	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	69
93	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
94	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
95	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
96	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
97	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
98	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
99	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
100	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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