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 Apr 2026

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04/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 142

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:44:05

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. ART19 (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	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
3	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
7	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
11	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
18	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
19	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
22	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
25	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
26	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
27	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
28	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
29	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
30	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
32	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
33	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
34	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
35	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
36	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
38	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
40	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
41	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
42	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
43	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
45	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
46	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
47	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
48	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
49	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
51	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
52	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
53	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
54	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
55	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
56	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
57	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
58	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
59	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
60	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
61	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
62	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
63	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
64	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
65	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
66	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
67	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
68	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
69	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
70	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
71	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
72	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
73	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
74	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
75	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
76	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
77	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
78	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
79	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
80	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
81	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
82	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
83	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
84	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
85	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
86	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
87	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
88	Diggin' Oak Island	Dave McBride	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
89	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
90	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
91	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
92	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
93	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
94	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
95	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
96	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
97	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
98	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
99	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
100	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53

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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