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: 167

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:42:59

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 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	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
3	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
12	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
13	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
14	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	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	140	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	93	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	47	Megaphone	48
22	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
23	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
24	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
27	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
29	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
30	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	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	23	American Public Media	62
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	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	278	Megaphone	43
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
44	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
45	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
46	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
47	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
48	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
49	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
50	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
51	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
52	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
54	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
55	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
56	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
57	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
58	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
59	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
60	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
61	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	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	31	BBC	58
65	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
66	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
67	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
68	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	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	92	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	7	PRX	59
76	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
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	67	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	291	Acast	69
82	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
83	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	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	347	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	1959	Omny Studio	52
92	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
93	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
94	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	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	490	RedCircle	43
98	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	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	222	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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