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 29 Mar 2026

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03/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:44:04

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
4	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
13	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
14	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
18	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
21	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
22	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
23	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
25	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
26	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
27	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
28	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	14	BBC	63
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
32	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
33	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
34	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
35	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
36	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
37	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
38	The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)	Foreign Policy magazine	Society & Culture	68	Megaphone	58
39	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
40	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
41	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
42	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
43	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
46	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
47	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
48	Uncovering Roots	Uncovering Roots	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	58
49	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	383	Audion	58
50	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	121	BBC	38
51	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
52	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
53	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	440	Acast	53
54	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
56	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
57	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
58	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
59	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
60	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	449	Acast	74
61	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
62	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
63	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
65	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
66	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
67	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
69	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	154	Spotify for Podcasters	52
70	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
71	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
72	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
73	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1203	Acast	59
74	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
75	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
76	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
77	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
78	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
79	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
80	Tête de cochon	Sandrine Deschênes	Society & Culture	48	Simplecast	53
81	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	171	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
83	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
84	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
85	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	69
86	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
87	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
88	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
89	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	298	Audioboom	58
90	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
91	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	104	Acast	73
92	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	113	Ximalaya	59
93	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
94	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
95	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
97	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
98	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	18	Acast	90
99	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
100	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	500	RedCircle	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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