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 26 Jan 2026

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01/26/2026

Average data

Episodes: 210

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:44:33

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
5	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
7	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
10	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
14	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
15	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
16	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
21	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
23	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
26	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
27	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
28	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
29	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
31	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
32	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
33	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
34	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
35	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
36	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
37	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
38	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
39	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
40	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
41	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
42	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
43	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
44	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
45	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
46	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
48	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
49	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
50	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
51	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
52	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
53	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
54	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
55	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
56	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
57	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
58	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
59	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
60	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
61	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
62	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
63	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
65	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
66	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
67	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
68	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
69	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
70	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
71	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
72	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
73	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
74	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
75	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
76	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
77	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
78	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
79	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
80	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
81	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
82	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
83	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
84	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
85	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
86	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
87	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
88	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
89	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
90	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
91	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
92	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	The Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	47	Podbean	58
93	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
94	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
95	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
96	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
97	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
98	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
99	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
100	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38

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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