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 May 2026

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05/30/2026

Average data

Episodes: 167

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:47:09

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Spreaker (6 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
11	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
12	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
15	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
17	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
22	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
23	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	22	Captivate	73
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
25	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
26	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
27	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
29	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
30	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
32	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
34	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
35	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
36	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
37	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
38	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
39	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
40	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
41	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
42	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
44	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
45	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
46	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
47	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
48	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
51	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
52	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
53	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
54	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
55	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
56	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
57	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
58	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
59	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
60	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
61	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
62	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
63	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
64	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
65	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
66	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
67	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
69	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
70	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
71	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
72	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
73	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
74	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
75	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
76	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
77	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
78	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
79	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
80	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
81	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
82	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
83	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
84	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
85	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
86	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
87	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
88	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
89	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
90	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
91	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
92	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
93	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
94	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
95	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
96	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	70	Spotify for Podcasters	28
97	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
98	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
99	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
100	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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