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 Jun 2026

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06/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:43:13

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
3	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
11	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
12	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
13	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
14	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
16	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
18	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
20	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
22	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
23	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
24	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
27	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
29	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
30	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
34	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
35	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
37	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
44	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
45	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
46	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
47	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
48	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
49	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
50	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
51	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
52	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
54	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
55	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
56	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
57	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
58	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
59	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
60	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
61	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
64	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
65	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
66	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
67	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
68	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
69	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
70	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
71	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
72	Le bruit des bottes - Accélérer la fin du monde	Sam Harper	Society & Culture	5	Acast	79
73	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
74	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
75	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
76	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
77	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
78	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
79	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
80	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
81	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
82	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
83	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
84	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
85	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	355	Simplecast	78
86	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
87	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
88	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
89	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
90	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
91	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
92	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
93	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
94	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
95	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
96	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
97	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
98	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
99	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
100	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43

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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