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 18 Apr 2026

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04/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 141

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:44:18

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
3	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	73
4	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
11	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
12	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
15	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
16	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
20	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
21	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
22	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
23	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
24	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
26	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
30	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
31	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
32	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
33	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	702	Megaphone	53
35	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	105	BBC	38
36	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
37	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
38	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
39	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
40	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
41	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
44	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	43
45	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
46	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
47	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
48	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
49	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
50	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
51	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
52	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
53	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
54	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
55	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
57	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
58	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
59	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
60	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	377	Audion	58
61	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
62	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
63	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
64	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
65	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
66	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
67	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
68	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
69	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
70	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
71	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
72	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
73	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
74	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
75	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
76	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
77	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	163	Omny Studio	69
78	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
79	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
80	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
81	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
82	MIS(TER)GENDERED	Sar White	Society & Culture	6	Buzzsprout	58
83	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
84	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	103	Acast	73
85	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
86	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
87	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	37	Octopus	59
88	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
89	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
90	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
91	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
92	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
93	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
94	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
95	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
96	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
97	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
98	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
99	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
100	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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