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 Apr 2026

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04/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 141

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:44:31

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
3	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
4	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
13	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
14	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
22	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
23	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
25	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
26	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
27	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
28	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
31	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
33	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
34	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
35	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
41	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
42	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
43	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
44	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
45	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
46	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
47	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
48	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
49	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
50	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
51	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
52	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
53	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
54	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
55	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
56	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
57	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
58	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
61	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
63	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
65	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
67	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
68	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
69	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
70	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
71	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
72	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
73	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
74	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
75	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
76	MIS(TER)GENDERED	Sar White	Society & Culture	6	Buzzsprout	58
77	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
78	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
79	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
80	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
81	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
82	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
83	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
84	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
85	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
86	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
87	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
88	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
89	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
90	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
91	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
92	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
93	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
94	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
95	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
96	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
97	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
98	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
99	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
100	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68

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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