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 16 Feb 2026

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02/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 183

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:44:52

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
3	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
12	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
13	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
17	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
21	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
22	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
23	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
24	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
25	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
26	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
29	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
30	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
31	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
32	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
34	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
38	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
39	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
40	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
41	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
42	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
43	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
45	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
46	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
47	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
48	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
49	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
50	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
51	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
52	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
53	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
54	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
56	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
57	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
58	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
59	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
60	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
62	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
63	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
64	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
65	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
66	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
67	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
68	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
69	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
70	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
71	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
72	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
73	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
74	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
75	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
76	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
77	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
78	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
79	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
80	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
81	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
82	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
83	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
84	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
85	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
86	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
87	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
88	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
89	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
90	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
91	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
92	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
93	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
94	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
95	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	The Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	47	Podbean	58
96	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
97	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
98	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
99	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
100	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

The podcast landscape in Canada is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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