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 May 2026

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05/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 148

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:45:31

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. BBC (2 shows)

3. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (8 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
2	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
4	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
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	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
12	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
13	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
16	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
22	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
23	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
24	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
27	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
29	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
31	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
32	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
33	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
34	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
35	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
37	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
39	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
40	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
41	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
42	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
43	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
44	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
45	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
46	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
49	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
50	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
51	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
52	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
53	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
54	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
55	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
56	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
57	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
58	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
59	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
60	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
61	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
62	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
63	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
64	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
65	A Shot At History	Fix The News	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	79
66	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
67	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
68	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
69	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
70	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
71	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
72	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
73	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
74	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
75	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
76	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
77	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
78	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
79	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
80	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
81	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
82	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
83	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
84	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
85	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
86	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
88	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
89	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
90	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
91	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
92	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
93	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
94	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
95	Тюремный подкаст	Поехавший	Society & Culture	134	mave	73
96	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
97	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
98	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
99	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
100	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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