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 22 Mar 2026

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03/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 167

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:44:52

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (2 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. RTL (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. PRX (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
3	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
5	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
10	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
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	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
20	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
21	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
23	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
25	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
28	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
29	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
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	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
34	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
35	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
36	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
37	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
38	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
39	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
41	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
44	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
45	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
46	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
47	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
48	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
49	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
50	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
51	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
52	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
53	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
54	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
55	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
56	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
57	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
58	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
60	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
61	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
62	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
63	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
64	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
65	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
66	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
67	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
68	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
69	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
70	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
71	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
72	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
73	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
74	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
75	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
76	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
77	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
78	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
79	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
80	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
81	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
83	Diggin' Oak Island	Dave McBride	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
84	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
85	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
86	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
87	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
88	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
89	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
90	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
91	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
92	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
93	锵锵三人行 (98-10年)	锵粉	Society & Culture	398	Spotify for Podcasters	33
94	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
95	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
96	Admissible: Shreds of Evidence	VPM & Story Mechanics	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	53
97	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
98	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
99	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
100	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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