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 Jun 2026

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06/30/2026

Average data

Episodes: 168

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:44:36

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
2	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
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	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
12	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
13	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
14	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
16	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
18	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
20	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
22	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
23	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
24	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
25	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
28	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
29	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
30	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
31	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
32	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
34	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
35	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
36	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
38	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
39	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
40	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
41	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
42	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
43	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
44	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
45	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
46	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
47	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
48	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
49	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
50	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
51	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
52	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
53	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
54	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
55	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
56	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
57	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
58	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
59	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
60	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
61	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
62	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
63	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
64	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
65	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
66	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
67	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
68	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
69	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
70	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
71	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
72	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
73	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
74	Le bruit des bottes - Accélérer la fin du monde	Sam Harper	Society & Culture	5	Acast	79
75	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
76	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
77	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
78	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
79	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
80	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
81	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
82	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
83	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
84	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
85	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
86	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
87	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
88	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
90	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
91	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
92	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
93	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
94	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
95	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
96	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
97	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
98	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
99	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
100	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59

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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