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 16 Jan 2026

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01/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 413

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:58:18

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

3. Audible (3 shows)

4. The New York Times (3 shows)

5. Barstool Sports (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (20 shows)

2. Simplecast (16 shows)

3. Acast (16 shows)

4. ART19 (11 shows)

5. Omny Studio (10 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	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
4	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	403	Megaphone	53
5	The Viall Files	Nick Viall	Society & Culture	1211	Libsyn	63
6	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1152	Megaphone	58
7	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	154	Simplecast	73
8	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1185	Omny Studio	59
9	Ideas	CBC	Society & Culture	236	Triton Digital	53
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
11	Roz & Mocha	Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	1653	Simplecast	53
12	Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly	Apostrophe Podcast Network	Society & Culture	436	Acast	68
13	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
14	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
15	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
16	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	107	ART19	68
17	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
18	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
19	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
20	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
21	Chicks in the Office	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	53
22	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	63
23	We Can Do Hard Things	Treat Media and Glennon Doyle	Society & Culture	642	Megaphone	48
24	The Breakdown with Josie Balka	Josie Balka	Society & Culture	10	Buzzsprout	47
25	Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe	Apostrophe Podcast Network	Society & Culture	173	Acast	73
26	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
27	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
28	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
29	Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)	Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson	Society & Culture	128	Simplecast	68
30	Ouvre ton jeu avec Marie-Claude Barrette	Umano Productions	Society & Culture	185	Spotify for Podcasters	52
31	Against The Odds	Audible	Society & Culture	291	ART19	83
32	Modern Love	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
33	I've Had It	Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan	Society & Culture	400	Megaphone	48
34	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	128	Omny Studio	63
35	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	215	Omny Studio	69
36	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
37	On s'connait pas tant que ça	Studio SF	Society & Culture	192	Acast	58
38	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2821	Acast	43
39	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
40	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
41	Dear Hank & John	Complexly	Society & Culture	464	ART19	73
42	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
43	OUBLIE PAS TA BROSSE À DENTS - Podcast d’Alexandre Barrette	Alexandre Barrette	Society & Culture	97	Podbean	31
44	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
45	Stuff They Don't Want You To Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2028	Omny Studio	53
46	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
47	Q with Tom Power	CBC	Society & Culture	1420	Triton Digital	53
48	Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud	CBC	Society & Culture	677	Triton Digital	32
49	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	145	ART19	73
50	Timcast IRL	Timcast Media	Society & Culture	1731	Libsyn	53
51	U Up?	Betches Media	Society & Culture	807	Megaphone	64
52	Party Pyjama	Party Pyjama	Society & Culture	79	Acast	79
53	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	277	Omny Studio	83
54	Le 5 à 7 Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Jessica Roux & Rosemarie Santerre	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	48
55	Chez moi	Mariloup Wolfe	Society & Culture	32	Acast	63
56	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	677	Megaphone	42
57	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
58	小天章	小天章	Society & Culture	2	Unknown	43
59	Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	544	Unknown	38
60	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
61	The Wirecutter Show	The New York Times	Society & Culture	161	Simplecast	69
62	Family Secrets	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	253	Omny Studio	48
63	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
64	All There Is with Anderson Cooper	CNN Podcasts	Society & Culture	65	Megaphone	42
65	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
66	Sans Filtre Podcast	Studio SF	Society & Culture	342	Acast	58
67	Oprah's Super Soul	Oprah	Society & Culture	635	Acast	38
68	A Slight Change of Plans Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	193	N/A	N/A
69	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
70	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
71	Conversations with Coleman Details temporarily unavailable	This Is 42	Society & Culture	260	Simplecast	58
72	Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa	Kelly Ripa	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
73	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	40	Acast	84
74	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
75	Contact - avec Stéphan Bureau	Les Productions de la Tête Chercheuse Inc.	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	68
76	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	42
77	STASSI with Tay	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	468	ART19	38
78	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
79	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
80	Coffee Convos with Kail Lowry and Lindsie Chrisley	PodcastOne	Society & Culture	505	ART19	53
81	Unexplained Encounters	Eeriecast Network	Society & Culture	608	Megaphone	59
82	Mark Narrations - Reddit Stories	Mark B	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	53
83	The Best People with Nicolle Wallace	MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace	Society & Culture	82	Simplecast	47
84	The Dog Walk	Barstool Sports	Society & Culture	910	Unknown	43
85	Datestable	Vanessa Duchel	Society & Culture	131	Acast	48
86	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
87	Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings	Oprah and Eckhart Tolle	Society & Culture	278	Simplecast	38
88	Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari	Dear Media	Society & Culture	152	ART19	52
89	Fela Kuti: Fear No Man	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	14	ART19	69
90	CreepCast	Wendigoon & MeatCanyon	Society & Culture	124	Megaphone	38
91	Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	268	Omny Studio	63
92	Literally! With Rob Lowe	Stitcher & Team Coco, Rob Lowe	Society & Culture	369	Simplecast	58
93	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
94	The Nerve with Maureen Callahan	MK Media	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	62
95	Death, Sex & Money	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	567	Acast	49
96	Blowback	Blowback	Society & Culture	80	RedCircle	53
97	Monsters Among Us	Derek Hayes \| Audioboom Studios	Society & Culture	619	Audioboom	73
98	The Sunday Magazine	CBC	Society & Culture	91	Triton Digital	43
99	The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby	Matt & Abby \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	193	Megaphone	37
100	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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