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 23 Jun 2026

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06/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 241 days

Duration: 00:43:04

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Audible Original (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
6	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
12	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
13	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	271	WideOrbit	48
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
15	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	70	Acast	83
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
20	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
23	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
24	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
26	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
27	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
30	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	143	N/A	N/A
31	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
32	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
33	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
34	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
35	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
36	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
37	Question Everything	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	89	Omny Studio	63
38	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
39	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
40	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
41	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
42	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
43	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
44	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
47	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
48	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	386	Audion	58
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
50	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
52	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
53	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
55	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
56	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
57	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
58	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
59	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
60	Le genou à terre	Diffusion Alternative	Society & Culture	26	Acast	53
61	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
62	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
63	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
64	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
65	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
66	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
67	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
68	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
69	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
70	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
71	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
72	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
73	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
74	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
75	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
76	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
77	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	235	Acast	43
78	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
79	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
80	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
81	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
82	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
83	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
84	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
85	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
86	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
87	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
88	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
89	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
90	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
91	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
92	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
93	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
94	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
95	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
96	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
97	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
98	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
99	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
100	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69

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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