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 Apr 2026

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04/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 131

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:45:33

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
3	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
16	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
18	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
19	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
21	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
22	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
23	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
24	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
26	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
27	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
28	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
33	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
34	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
35	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
36	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
39	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
40	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
41	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
42	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
43	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
44	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
45	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
46	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
47	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
48	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
49	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
50	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
52	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
53	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
54	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
56	MIS(TER)GENDERED	Sar White	Society & Culture	6	Buzzsprout	58
57	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
58	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
59	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
60	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
61	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
63	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
64	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
65	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
66	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
67	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
68	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
69	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
70	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
71	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
72	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
73	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
74	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
75	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
76	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
77	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
78	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
79	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
80	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
81	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan	Society & Culture	375	Blubrry Podcasting	43
82	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
83	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
84	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
85	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
86	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
87	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
88	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
89	Unmaking the Prison Image	Visualizing Abolition	Society & Culture	4	Unknown	68
90	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
91	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
92	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
93	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
94	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
95	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
96	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
97	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
99	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
100	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84

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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