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 24 Feb 2026

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02/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 136

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:46:25

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
2	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
3	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
4	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
10	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
13	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
14	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
15	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
19	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
20	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
21	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
22	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
23	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
26	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
28	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
29	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
30	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
31	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
32	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
34	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
35	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
38	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
39	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
40	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
41	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
42	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
43	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
44	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
46	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
47	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
48	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
49	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
50	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
51	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
52	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
53	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
54	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
55	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
57	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
58	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
59	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
60	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
61	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
62	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
63	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
65	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
66	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
67	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
68	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
69	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
70	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
71	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
72	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
73	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
74	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
75	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
76	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
77	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
79	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
80	Howard Stern - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	69
81	In The Wild	Narrative.fm	Society & Culture	157	Simplecast	63
82	Audio \| InSight Crime	InSight Crime	Society & Culture	116	Spotify for Podcasters	53
83	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
84	The Vegan Report	Rayane Laddi	Society & Culture	146	RSS.com	48
85	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
86	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
87	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
88	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
89	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
90	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
92	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
93	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
94	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
96	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
97	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
98	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
99	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
100	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32

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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