Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Society & Culture

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 02 Jan 2026

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01/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 387

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:52:41

Top 5 authors

1. Pushkin Industries (5 shows)

2. CBC (5 shows)

3. Audible Original (3 shows)

4. Apostrophe Podcast Network (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. ART19 (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	64	Substack	43
2	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
3	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1165	Megaphone	58
4	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	133	Omny Studio	63
5	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	414	Megaphone	53
6	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
7	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	81	Buzzsprout	38
8	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
9	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
10	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	219	Omny Studio	69
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
12	Ideas	CBC	Society & Culture	239	Triton Digital	53
13	Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly	Apostrophe Podcast Network	Society & Culture	440	Acast	68
14	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
15	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1230	Libsyn	63
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
17	Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe	Apostrophe Podcast Network	Society & Culture	177	Acast	73
18	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
19	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
20	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1198	Omny Studio	59
21	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	160	Simplecast	73
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
23	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	63
24	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
25	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
26	Roz & Mocha	Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	1684	Simplecast	53
27	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2844	Acast	43
28	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	117	ART19	68
29	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	652	Megaphone	48
30	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	69	Megaphone	42
31	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	60	ART19	63
32	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
33	Scamfluencers	Audible Original	Society & Culture	152	ART19	73
34	Honestly with Bari Weiss	The Free Press	Society & Culture	362	Megaphone	53
35	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
36	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
37	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	410	Megaphone	48
38	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
39	Q with Tom Power	CBC	Society & Culture	1461	Triton Digital	53
40	Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud	CBC	Society & Culture	703	Triton Digital	32
41	Against The Odds	Audible Original	Society & Culture	296	ART19	83
42	Ouvre ton jeu avec Marie-Claude Barrette	Umano Productions	Society & Culture	189	Spotify for Podcasters	52
43	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	253	Megaphone	38
44	Family Secrets	Family Secrets	Society & Culture	257	Megaphone	48
45	OUBLIE PAS TA BROSSE À DENTS - Podcast d’Alexandre Barrette	Alexandre Barrette	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	31
46	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
47	1440 Explores	1440 Media	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	63
48	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
49	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
50	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
51	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
52	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	689	Megaphone	42
53	Love Me	CBC	Society & Culture	40	Triton Digital	63
54	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	159	Megaphone	53
55	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
56	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	281	Omny Studio	83
57	La vie sociale	La vie sociale	Society & Culture	205	Podbean	62
58	Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky	Prufrock LLC	Society & Culture	88	Megaphone	48
59	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	135	WideOrbit	48
60	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
61	See You in Court	CBC	Society & Culture	22	Triton Digital	83
62	Chez moi	Mariloup Wolfe	Society & Culture	35	Acast	63
63	On s'connait pas tant que ça	Studio SF	Society & Culture	201	Acast	58
64	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	171	Simplecast	69
65	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	816	Megaphone	64
66	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	85	Megaphone	42
67	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	47
68	The Ripple Effect with Jenna Kim Jones	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	63
69	In Bed With The Right	Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan	Society & Culture	131	RSS.com	62
70	Oprah's Super Soul	Oprah	Society & Culture	644	Acast	38
71	Contact - avec Stéphan Bureau	Les Productions de la Tête Chercheuse Inc.	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	68
72	Against the Rules: The Big Short Companion	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	107	Omny Studio	69
73	Drug Story	Thomas Goetz	Society & Culture	15	Substack	89
74	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
75	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	572	Acast	49
76	People I (Mostly) Admire	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	244	Simplecast	63
77	Le 5 à 7 Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Jessica Roux & Rosemarie Santerre	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	48
78	Tubby	Left of Dial Media	Society & Culture	16	Acast	64
79	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
80	Critics at Large \| The New Yorker	The New Yorker	Society & Culture	151	Megaphone	63
81	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
82	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
83	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
84	Sidedoor	Smithsonian Institution	Society & Culture	259	PRX	53
85	A Slight Change of Plans Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	196	N/A	N/A
86	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
87	We Regret To Inform You: The Rejection Podcast	Apostrophe Podcast Network	Society & Culture	160	Acast	73
88	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
89	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	612	Megaphone	49
90	NO SUCH THING	MannyNoahDevan	Society & Culture	68	Acast	79
91	Gloves Off	Gloves Off with Stephen Marche	Society & Culture	34	Acast	84
92	Sans Filtre Podcast	Studio SF	Society & Culture	343	Acast	58
93	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
94	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	468	ART19	73
95	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
96	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
97	Blowback	Blowback	Society & Culture	80	RedCircle	53
98	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	128	Megaphone	38
99	Shameless	Shameless Media	Society & Culture	922	Megaphone	68
100	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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