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 21 avr. 2026

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04/21/2026

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Episodes: 140

Frequency: every 45 days

Duration: 00:45:59

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. ART19 (7 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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
10	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
17	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
21	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
23	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
24	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
25	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
27	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
28	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
29	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
30	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
32	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
33	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
34	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
35	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
36	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
39	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
40	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
41	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
43	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
44	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
45	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
49	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
50	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
51	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
52	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
53	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
55	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
56	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
57	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
58	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
59	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
60	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
61	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
62	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
63	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
64	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
65	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
66	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
69	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
70	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
71	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
72	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
73	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
74	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
75	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
76	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
77	At the Brink	William J. Perry Project	Society & Culture	17	Megaphone	79
78	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
79	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
80	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
81	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
82	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
83	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
84	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
85	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
86	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
87	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
88	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
89	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
90	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
91	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
92	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	122	Acast	43
93	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
94	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
95	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
96	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
97	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
98	Les Grands Entretiens d'Europe 1	Europe 1	Society & Culture	86	Audiomeans	43
99	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
100	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78

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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