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 20 Jan 2026

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01/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 207

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:46:44

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

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

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
5	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
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	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
14	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
15	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
19	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
20	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
22	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
23	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
25	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
26	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
27	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
28	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
29	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
30	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
31	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
32	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
36	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
39	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
40	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
41	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
42	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
44	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
45	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
46	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
47	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
48	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
49	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
50	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
51	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
52	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
53	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
56	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
57	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
58	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
59	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
60	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
61	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
62	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
63	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
64	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
65	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
66	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
67	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
68	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
69	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
70	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
71	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
72	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
73	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
74	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
75	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
76	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
77	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
78	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
79	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
80	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
81	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
83	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
84	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
85	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
86	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
87	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
88	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
89	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
90	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
91	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
92	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
93	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
94	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
95	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
96	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
97	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
98	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
99	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
100	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

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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