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 May 2026

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05/31/2026

Average data

Episodes: 167

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:47:46

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. ART19 (6 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
2	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
10	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
14	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
15	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
18	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
19	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
26	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
27	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
29	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
30	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
31	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
33	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
34	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
36	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
37	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
38	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
39	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
40	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
41	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
42	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
43	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
44	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
45	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
46	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
47	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
48	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
49	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
50	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
51	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
52	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
55	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
56	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
57	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
58	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
59	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
60	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
61	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
62	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
63	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
64	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
65	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
66	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
67	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
68	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
69	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
70	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
71	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
72	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
73	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
74	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
75	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
76	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
77	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
78	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
79	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
80	Dogs Beyond the Lab	John Ramer, Chelsey Marino, Lori, Cohen	Society & Culture	4	ART19	69
81	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
82	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
83	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
84	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
85	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
86	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
87	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
88	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
89	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
90	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
91	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
92	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
93	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
94	Hechos Reales	TrueStory	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	59
95	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
96	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
97	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	159	Simplecast	73
98	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
99	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
100	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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