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 17 May 2026

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05/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:44:15

Top 5 authors

1. Audible (2 shows)

2. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

3. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. ART19 (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
4	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
9	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
10	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
14	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
17	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
18	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
23	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
24	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
25	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
27	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
28	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
31	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
34	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
35	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
36	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
37	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
38	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
39	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
40	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
41	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
42	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
43	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
44	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
46	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
47	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
49	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
50	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
51	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
52	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
53	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
54	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
55	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
56	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
57	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
58	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
59	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
60	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
61	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
62	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
63	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
64	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
65	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
66	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
69	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
70	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
71	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
72	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
73	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
74	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
75	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
76	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
77	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
78	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
79	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
80	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
81	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
82	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
83	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
84	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
85	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
86	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
87	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
88	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
89	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
90	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
91	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
92	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
93	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
94	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
95	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
96	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
97	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
98	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
99	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
100	Canary: The Washington Post Investigates	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	12	The Washington Post	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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