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 31 Jan 2026

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01/31/2026

Average data

Episodes: 179

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:44:34

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. PRX (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
2	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
9	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
11	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
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 Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
17	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
19	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
23	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
28	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
30	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
31	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
32	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
36	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
37	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
38	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
39	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
40	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
41	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
42	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
44	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
46	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
47	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
48	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
49	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
50	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
51	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
52	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
53	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
54	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
55	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
56	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
57	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
58	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
59	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
60	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
61	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
62	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
63	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
65	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
66	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
67	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
68	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
69	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
70	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
71	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
72	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
73	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
74	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
75	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
76	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
77	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
78	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
79	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
80	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
81	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
83	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
84	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
85	Autre perspective	Kollectif	Society & Culture	12	Acast	89
86	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
87	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
88	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
89	Soothing History for Sleep	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	18	Podbean	58
90	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
91	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
92	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
93	Invisible Force: MRI Accident Investigations	CAIREreporting.org & Tobias Gilk	Society & Culture	16	ART19	83
94	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
95	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
96	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
97	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
98	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
99	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
100	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43

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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