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 Jun 2026

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06/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 185

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:43:10

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
4	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
11	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
12	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
13	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
14	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
15	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
21	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
22	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
23	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
25	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
27	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
32	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
33	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
34	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
35	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
36	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
37	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
38	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
39	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
41	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
42	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
44	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
45	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
46	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
49	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
50	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
51	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
53	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
54	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
55	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
56	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
57	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
58	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
59	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
60	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
61	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
62	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
63	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
64	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
65	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
66	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
67	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
68	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
69	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
70	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
71	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
72	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
73	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
74	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
75	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
76	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
77	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
78	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
79	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
80	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
81	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
82	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
83	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	488	Omny Studio	68
84	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
85	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
86	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
87	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
88	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
89	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
90	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
91	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
92	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
93	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
94	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
95	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
96	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
97	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
98	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
99	Internet Anarchist	Internet Anarchist	Society & Culture	167	Megaphone	59
100	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	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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