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 14 Jan 2026

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01/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 435

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:57:36

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. Dear Media (3 shows)

3. The New York Times (3 shows)

4. Audible Original (3 shows)

5. Pushkin Industries (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. Acast (15 shows)

3. Simplecast (12 shows)

4. ART19 (12 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
2	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
3	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
4	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	414	Megaphone	53
5	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1231	Libsyn	63
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
7	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1165	Megaphone	58
8	Roz & Mocha	Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	1685	Simplecast	53
9	Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly	Apostrophe Podcast Network	Society & Culture	440	Acast	68
10	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1198	Omny Studio	59
11	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
12	Ideas	CBC	Society & Culture	239	Triton Digital	53
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
14	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
15	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
16	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	159	Megaphone	53
17	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	160	Simplecast	73
18	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	652	Megaphone	48
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
20	Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe	Apostrophe Podcast Network	Society & Culture	178	Acast	73
21	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
22	Ouvre ton jeu avec Marie-Claude Barrette	Umano Productions	Society & Culture	190	Spotify for Podcasters	52
23	OUBLIE PAS TA BROSSE À DENTS - Podcast d’Alexandre Barrette	Alexandre Barrette	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	31
24	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	117	ART19	68
25	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
26	Scamfluencers	Audible Original	Society & Culture	152	ART19	73
27	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
28	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
29	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	63
30	Against The Odds	Audible Original	Society & Culture	296	ART19	83
31	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	219	Omny Studio	69
32	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2845	Acast	43
33	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	60	ART19	63
34	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	690	Megaphone	42
35	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	133	Omny Studio	63
36	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	64	Substack	43
37	Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud	CBC	Society & Culture	704	Triton Digital	32
38	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	281	Omny Studio	83
39	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	81	Buzzsprout	38
40	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
41	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	410	Megaphone	48
42	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
43	Party Pyjama	Party Pyjama	Society & Culture	84	Acast	79
44	Q with Tom Power	CBC	Society & Culture	1463	Triton Digital	53
45	On s'connait pas tant que ça	Studio SF	Society & Culture	201	Acast	58
46	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	69	Megaphone	42
47	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
48	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
49	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
50	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
51	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	133	Simplecast	68
52	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	86	Megaphone	42
53	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	90	Simplecast	47
54	Sans Filtre Podcast	Studio SF	Society & Culture	343	Acast	58
55	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1754	Libsyn	53
56	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
57	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	817	Megaphone	64
58	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	173	Simplecast	69
59	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
60	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	468	ART19	73
61	Chez moi	Mariloup Wolfe	Society & Culture	35	Acast	63
62	小天章	小天章	Society & Culture	2	Unknown	43
63	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	554	Unknown	38
64	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	157	ART19	52
65	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
66	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	136	WideOrbit	48
67	The Dating Detectives	Dear Media	Society & Culture	182	ART19	48
68	The Sunday Magazine	CBC	Society & Culture	99	Triton Digital	43
69	Family Secrets	Family Secrets	Society & Culture	258	Megaphone	48
70	What We Said	Dear Media	Society & Culture	588	ART19	58
71	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
72	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
73	Who? Weekly	Who? Weekly	News	1066	WideOrbit	53
74	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
75	Le 5 à 7 Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Jessica Roux & Rosemarie Santerre	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	48
76	Blowback	Blowback	Society & Culture	80	RedCircle	53
77	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	210	Simplecast	62
78	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	128	Megaphone	38
79	Datestable	Vanessa Duchel	Society & Culture	135	Acast	48
80	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	572	Acast	49
81	Cynthia and Josie's Unmentionables	iHeartRadio	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	68
82	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
83	Karma & Chaos with Kail Lowry & Becky Hayter	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	122	ART19	58
84	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	253	Megaphone	38
85	Girls Next Level	Holly Madison & Bridget Marquardt	Society & Culture	211	Libsyn	68
86	La vie sociale	La vie sociale	Society & Culture	205	Podbean	62
87	Oprah's Super Soul	Oprah	Society & Culture	644	Acast	38
88	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
89	In Bed With The Right	Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan	Society & Culture	131	RSS.com	62
90	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
91	Within Reason	Alex J O'Connor	Society & Culture	163	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
93	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	53
94	The Gray Area with Sean Illing	Vox	Society & Culture	809	Megaphone	58
95	Jillian on Love	Jillian Turecki \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	220	Megaphone	83
96	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
97	A Little Bit Culty	Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames	Society & Culture	344	Libsyn	89
98	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
99	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
100	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69

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