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 Jun 2026

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06/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 162

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:45:14

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
6	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
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	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
11	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
12	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
14	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
16	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
17	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
18	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
19	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
21	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
22	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
25	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
26	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
27	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
28	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway Details temporarily unavailable	Sky News	Society & Culture	10	Captivate	42
29	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
32	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
34	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
35	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
36	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
37	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
38	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
39	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
40	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
41	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
42	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
45	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
46	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
47	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
48	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
49	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
50	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
51	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
52	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
55	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
56	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
57	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
58	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
59	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
60	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
61	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
62	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
63	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
64	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
65	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
66	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
67	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
68	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
69	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
70	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
71	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
72	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
75	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
76	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
77	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
78	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
79	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
80	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
81	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
82	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
83	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
84	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
85	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
86	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
88	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
89	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
90	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
91	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
92	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
93	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
94	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
95	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
96	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
97	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	957	Spreaker	64
98	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
99	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
100	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62

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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