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 Jun 2026

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06/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 189

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:44:22

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 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	944	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	313	Megaphone	42
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
12	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
13	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
16	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	271	WideOrbit	48
17	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
19	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
20	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
21	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
22	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
25	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
27	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
31	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
32	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
33	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
34	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
35	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
36	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
37	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
40	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
41	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
42	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
43	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
45	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
46	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
47	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
48	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
49	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
50	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
51	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
52	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
53	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
55	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
56	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
57	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
58	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
59	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
60	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
61	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
65	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
66	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
67	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
68	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
69	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
70	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
71	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
72	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
73	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
74	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
75	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
76	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
77	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
78	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
79	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
80	Le bruit des bottes - Accélérer la fin du monde	Sam Harper	Society & Culture	5	Acast	79
81	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	113	Ximalaya	59
82	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
83	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
84	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
85	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
86	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
87	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
88	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
89	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
90	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
91	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
92	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
93	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
94	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
95	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
96	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
97	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
98	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
99	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
100	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63

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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