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 Jun 2026

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06/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 158

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:44:22

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. ART19 (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
10	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
11	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
14	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
15	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
17	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
19	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
20	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
22	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
23	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
24	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
25	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
34	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
36	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
37	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
38	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
39	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
40	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
41	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
42	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
43	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
44	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
45	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
47	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
48	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
49	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
50	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
51	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
52	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
53	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
54	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
55	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
56	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
57	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
58	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
60	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
61	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
62	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
63	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
64	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
65	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
66	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
67	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
68	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
69	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
70	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
71	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
72	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
73	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
74	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
75	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
76	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
77	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
78	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
79	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
80	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
81	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
82	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
83	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
84	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
85	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
87	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
88	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
89	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
90	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
91	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
92	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
93	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
94	Autoimmunity and the Good Girls: Behind-the-Page with Sara Hirsh Bordo	Women Rising®	Society & Culture	10	Podbean	68
95	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
96	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
97	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
98	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
99	پادکست داستانی ترپند /TarPand	Tarpand	Society & Culture	57	Acast	79
100	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	163	Simplecast	63

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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