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 Jun 2026

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06/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 172

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:45:06

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (13 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (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	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
5	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
12	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
13	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
15	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
16	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
19	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
21	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
22	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
23	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
24	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
25	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
28	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
36	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
37	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
38	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
39	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
40	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
41	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
42	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
43	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
45	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
46	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
47	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
48	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
49	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
50	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
51	Le bruit des bottes - Accélérer la fin du monde	Sam Harper	Society & Culture	5	Acast	79
52	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
53	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
56	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
57	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
58	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
59	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
60	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
61	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
62	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
63	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
64	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
65	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
66	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
69	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
70	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
73	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
74	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
75	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
76	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
77	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
78	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
79	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
80	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
81	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
82	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
83	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
84	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
85	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
86	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
87	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
88	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
89	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
90	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
91	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
92	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
93	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
94	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
95	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
96	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
97	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
98	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
99	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
100	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	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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