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 May 2026

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05/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 162

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:42:04

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

3. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
2	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
6	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
7	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
10	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
14	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
19	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
20	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
21	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
23	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
24	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
25	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
27	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
28	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
30	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
31	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
32	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
33	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
34	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
35	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
36	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
38	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
39	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
40	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
41	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
42	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
43	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
44	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
47	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
48	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
49	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
50	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
51	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
52	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
53	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
54	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
55	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
56	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
57	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
58	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
59	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
60	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
61	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
62	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
63	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
64	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
65	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
66	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
67	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
68	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
69	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
70	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
71	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
72	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
73	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
74	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
75	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
76	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
77	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
78	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
79	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
80	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
81	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
82	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
83	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
84	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
85	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
87	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
88	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
89	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
90	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
91	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
92	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
93	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
94	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
95	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
96	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
97	Declassified	Jude Bela	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	33
98	Red Ribbon Cattle Podcast	Wendy Hasson	Society & Culture	14	Spotify for Podcasters	42
99	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
100	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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