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 Mar 2026

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03/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:46:06

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (6 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
8	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
9	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
14	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
16	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
18	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
20	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
23	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
24	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
25	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
26	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
27	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
28	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
30	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
31	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
32	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
33	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
36	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
37	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
38	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
39	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
40	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
41	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
42	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
43	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
44	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
45	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
46	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
48	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
49	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
50	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
51	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
52	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
53	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
54	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
55	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
56	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
57	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
58	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
59	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
60	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
62	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
63	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
64	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
65	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
66	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
67	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
68	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
69	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
70	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
71	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
72	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
73	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
74	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
75	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
76	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
77	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
78	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
79	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
80	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
81	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
82	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
83	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
84	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
85	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
86	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
87	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
88	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
89	锵锵三人行 (98-10年)	锵粉	Society & Culture	398	Spotify for Podcasters	33
90	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
91	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
92	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
93	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
94	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
95	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
96	Une sur dix	Pivot	Society & Culture	6	Spreaker	64
97	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	525	Spreaker	43
98	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
99	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
100	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	85	Spotify for Podcasters	32

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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