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 27 Apr 2026

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04/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 147

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:44:09

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
11	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
14	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
15	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
20	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
21	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
23	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
24	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
25	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
28	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
29	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
31	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
33	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
34	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
35	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
37	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
38	Confessions of an Elite Athlete with Midge Purce	Vox Media	Sports	2	Megaphone	48
39	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
40	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
41	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
42	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
43	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
44	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
45	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
46	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
48	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
49	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
50	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
51	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
52	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	MIS(TER)GENDERED	Sar White	Society & Culture	6	Buzzsprout	58
56	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
57	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
58	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
59	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
60	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
61	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
62	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
63	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
64	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
65	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
66	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
67	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
68	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
69	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
70	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
71	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
72	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
73	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
74	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
75	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan	Society & Culture	375	Blubrry Podcasting	43
76	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
77	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
78	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
79	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
80	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
81	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
82	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
83	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
84	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
85	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
86	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
87	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
88	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
89	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
90	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
91	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
93	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
94	Diggin' Oak Island	Dave McBride	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	48
95	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
96	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
97	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
98	The InBetween Official Podcast	The_InBetween	Society & Culture	206	Podbean	47
99	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
100	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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