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 Jun 2026

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06/26/2026

Average data

Episodes: 140

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:43:50

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (8 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
12	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
13	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
14	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
16	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
18	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
19	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
20	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
21	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
22	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
23	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
25	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
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	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
30	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
33	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
34	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
35	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
36	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
38	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
39	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
40	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
41	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
42	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
43	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
44	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
45	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
46	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
48	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
49	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
50	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
51	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
52	Le bruit des bottes - Accélérer la fin du monde	Sam Harper	Society & Culture	5	Acast	79
53	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
54	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
55	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
56	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
57	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
58	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
59	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
60	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
62	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
63	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
64	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
65	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
66	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
67	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
68	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
69	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
70	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
73	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
74	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
75	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
76	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
77	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
78	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
79	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
80	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
81	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
82	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
83	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
84	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
85	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
86	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
87	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
88	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
89	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
90	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68
92	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
93	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
94	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
95	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
96	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	113	Ximalaya	59
97	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
98	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
99	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
100	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68

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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