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 Mar 2026

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03/30/2026

Average data

Episodes: 168

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:44:55

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. BBC (8 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	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
12	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
13	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
17	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
20	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
21	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
22	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
23	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
26	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
27	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
28	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
30	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
31	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
32	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
33	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
34	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
39	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
40	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
41	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
42	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
43	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
44	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
45	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
46	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
47	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
48	The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)	Foreign Policy magazine	Society & Culture	68	Megaphone	58
49	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
50	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
51	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
52	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
53	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
54	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
56	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
57	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
58	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
59	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
60	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
61	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
62	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
63	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
64	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
65	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
66	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
67	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
68	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
69	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
70	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
71	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
72	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
73	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
74	Uncovering Roots	Uncovering Roots	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	58
75	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
76	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
77	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
78	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
79	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
80	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
81	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
82	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
83	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
84	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
85	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
86	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
87	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
88	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
89	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
90	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
91	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
92	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
93	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
94	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
95	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
96	The Ultimate Choice	TVO	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	49
97	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
98	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
99	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
100	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53

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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