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 30 Jan 2026

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01/30/2026

Average data

Episodes: 159

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:44:54

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
13	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
17	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
18	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
24	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
25	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
27	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
29	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
32	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
33	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
34	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
35	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
36	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
37	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
38	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
39	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
41	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
42	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
43	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
44	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
45	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
46	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
47	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
48	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
49	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
50	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
51	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
52	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
53	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
54	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
55	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	Soothing History for Sleep	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	18	Podbean	58
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
59	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
60	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
61	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
62	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
63	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
64	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
65	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
66	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
67	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
68	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
70	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
71	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
72	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
73	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
74	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
75	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
76	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
77	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
78	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
79	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
80	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
81	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
82	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
83	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
84	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
85	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
86	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
87	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
88	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
89	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
90	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
91	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
92	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
93	Invisible Force: MRI Accident Investigations	CAIREreporting.org & Tobias Gilk	Society & Culture	16	ART19	83
94	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
95	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
96	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
97	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
98	If You Heard What I Heard	If You Heard What I Heard	Society & Culture	21	Buzzsprout	63
99	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	The Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	47	Podbean	58
100	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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