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 12 Feb 2026

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02/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 380

Frequency: every 55 days

Duration: 00:56:18

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

4. Audible (3 shows)

5. Vox Media Podcast Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (26 shows)

2. Simplecast (12 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. ART19 (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
2	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
3	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	403	Megaphone	53
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
5	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
6	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1152	Megaphone	58
7	Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly	Apostrophe Podcast Network	Society & Culture	436	Acast	68
8	Ideas	CBC	Society & Culture	237	Triton Digital	53
9	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
10	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	55	ART19	63
13	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1186	Omny Studio	59
14	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
15	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	643	Megaphone	48
16	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
17	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
18	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1213	Libsyn	63
19	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
20	Roz & Mocha	Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	1655	Simplecast	53
21	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
22	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
23	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2822	Acast	43
24	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
25	Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe	Apostrophe Podcast Network	Society & Culture	173	Acast	73
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
27	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
28	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	401	Megaphone	48
29	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
30	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
31	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	292	ART19	83
32	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
33	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
34	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
35	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	63
36	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
37	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	108	ART19	68
38	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
39	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	145	ART19	73
40	La vie sociale	La vie sociale	Society & Culture	201	Podbean	62
41	Ouvre ton jeu avec Marie-Claude Barrette	Umano Productions	Society & Culture	185	Spotify for Podcasters	52
42	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
43	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
44	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	68
45	On s'connait pas tant que ça	Studio SF	Society & Culture	193	Acast	58
46	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	42
47	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
48	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
49	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
50	Q with Tom Power	CBC	Society & Culture	1424	Triton Digital	53
51	Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud	CBC	Society & Culture	679	Triton Digital	32
52	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	153	ART19	52
53	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
54	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
55	Le 5 à 7 Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Jessica Roux & Rosemarie Santerre	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	48
56	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
57	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
58	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
59	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	40	Acast	84
60	A Slight Change of Plans Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	193	N/A	N/A
61	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
62	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	42
63	The Power and The Punchline	Unplugged Studios	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	53
64	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	808	Megaphone	64
65	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
66	Aujourd'hui l'histoire	Radio-Canada	Society & Culture	103	Triton Digital	49
67	Party Pyjama	Party Pyjama	Society & Culture	79	Acast	79
68	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	678	Megaphone	42
69	Within Reason	Alex J O'Connor	Society & Culture	162	Spotify for Podcasters	28
70	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	568	Acast	49
71	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	465	ART19	73
72	Contact - avec Stéphan Bureau	Les Productions de la Tête Chercheuse Inc.	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	68
73	Shameless	Shameless Media	Society & Culture	909	Megaphone	68
74	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
75	hot pursuit by AsianBossGirl	Emily, Madelyn, Jen	Society & Culture	471	Megaphone	53
76	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
77	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
78	Happy Enough	The Globe and Mail	Society & Culture	25	Simplecast	63
79	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	801	Megaphone	58
80	Wild Card with Rachel Martin	NPR	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	58
81	OUBLIE PAS TA BROSSE À DENTS - Podcast d’Alexandre Barrette	Alexandre Barrette	Society & Culture	97	Podbean	31
82	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
83	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1733	Libsyn	53
84	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
85	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	226	Spotify for Podcasters	52
86	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
87	Can't Be Censored	Can't Be Censored	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	63
88	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
89	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
91	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
92	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	194	Megaphone	37
93	In Bed With The Right	Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan	Society & Culture	129	RSS.com	62
94	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	469	ART19	38
95	Not Loveline	Tana Mongeau and Trish Paytas	Society & Culture	87	Megaphone	38
96	Explain It to Me	Vox	Society & Culture	810	Megaphone	59
97	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	82	Simplecast	47
98	Evelyne et Gabrielle font un podcast	Gabrielle Caron et Evelyne Ferron	Society & Culture	68	Unknown	42
99	Sounds Like A Cult	Studio71	Society & Culture	234	Megaphone	74
100	Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth	Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media	Society & Culture	274	Acast	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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