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 Jun 2026

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06/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 194

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:44:44

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	378	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	301	Megaphone	42
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
7	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
8	Personally: Discount Dave (and the Fix)	CBC	Society & Culture	67	Triton Digital	63
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
14	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	430	Megaphone	32
16	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
17	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
18	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	257	WideOrbit	48
19	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
21	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
22	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
23	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
24	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
25	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
26	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
28	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
33	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
36	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	19	ART19	73
38	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
39	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	366	Audion	58
40	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
41	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
42	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
43	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
44	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
45	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
46	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
47	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
48	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
50	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
51	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
52	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
53	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
54	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
55	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
56	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
58	Le bruit des bottes - Accélérer la fin du monde	Sam Harper	Society & Culture	5	Acast	79
59	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
60	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
61	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
62	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
63	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
65	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
66	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
67	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
68	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	43
69	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	186	Ximalaya	53
70	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
71	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
72	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
73	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
74	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
75	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
76	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
77	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
78	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
79	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
80	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
81	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
82	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
83	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
84	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
85	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
86	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
87	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
88	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
89	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
90	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
92	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
93	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
94	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
95	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
96	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
97	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
98	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
99	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
100	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	81	Spotify for Podcasters	32

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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