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 25 May 2026

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05/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 156

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:44:40

Top 5 authors

1. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
6	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	312	Megaphone	42
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
14	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	442	Megaphone	32
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
20	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	125	BBC	38
22	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
23	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
25	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
27	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
28	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
29	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
33	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
34	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
35	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
36	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
37	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
38	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
39	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
40	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
41	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
42	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
43	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
44	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
45	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
46	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
47	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
48	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
49	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
51	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
53	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
54	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
55	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
56	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	450	Acast	74
57	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
58	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
59	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
60	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
61	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
62	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1205	Acast	59
63	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	384	Audion	58
64	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
65	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
66	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
67	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
68	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
69	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
70	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	154	Spotify for Podcasters	52
71	Pour essayer de m'entendre	toutEs ou pantoute	Society & Culture	2	Pinecast	59
72	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
73	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
74	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
75	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
76	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
77	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
78	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
79	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
80	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
81	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
82	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
83	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
84	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
85	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	69
86	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	202	ART19	37
87	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
88	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
89	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
90	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	670	Acast	69
91	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
92	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
93	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
94	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
95	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	171	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	68
97	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
98	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
99	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
100	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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