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 19 Jan 2026

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01/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 193

Frequency: every 240 days

Duration: 00:49:10

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. RTL (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. BBC (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
9	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
11	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
13	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
14	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
19	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
20	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
21	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
24	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
26	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
27	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
28	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
31	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
32	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
33	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
34	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
35	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
36	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
37	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
40	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
41	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
42	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
45	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
47	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
49	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
50	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
51	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
52	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
53	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
54	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
55	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
56	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
57	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
58	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
59	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
60	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
61	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
62	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
63	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
64	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
65	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
66	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
67	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
68	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
69	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
70	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
73	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
74	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
75	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
76	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
77	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
78	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
79	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
80	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
81	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
83	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
84	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
85	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
86	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
87	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
88	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
89	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
90	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
91	Diggin' Oak Island	Dave McBride	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
92	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
93	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
94	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
95	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
96	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
97	The Loop	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	7	PRX	64
98	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	583	Spreaker	74
99	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
100	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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