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 28 Jan 2026

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01/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 177

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:44:37

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
3	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
4	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
11	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
12	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
15	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
16	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
19	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
21	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
23	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
25	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
26	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
27	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
29	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
30	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
31	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
33	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
34	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
35	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
36	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
37	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
39	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
40	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
41	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
42	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
45	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
46	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
47	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
48	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
49	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
50	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
51	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
52	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
54	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
55	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
56	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
57	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	93	Megaphone	63
58	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
59	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
60	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
61	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
62	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
63	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
64	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
65	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
66	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
67	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
68	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
69	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
70	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
71	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
72	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
73	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
74	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
75	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
76	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
77	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
78	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
79	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
80	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
81	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
82	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
83	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
84	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
85	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
86	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
87	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
88	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
89	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
90	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
91	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
92	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
93	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
94	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
95	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
96	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
97	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	The Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	47	Podbean	58
98	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	32	Podbean	41
99	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
100	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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