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 01 Aug 2026

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08/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 146

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:45:15

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
8	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
10	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
12	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
17	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
18	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
19	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
20	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
21	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
22	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
23	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
24	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
26	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
27	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
28	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
30	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
31	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
32	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
35	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
38	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
39	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
40	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
41	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
42	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
43	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
44	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
45	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
46	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
47	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
48	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
49	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
51	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
52	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
53	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
55	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
56	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
57	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
58	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
59	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
60	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
61	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
62	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
63	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
64	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
66	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
67	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
68	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
69	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
70	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
71	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
72	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
73	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
74	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
75	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
76	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
77	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
78	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
79	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
80	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
81	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
83	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
84	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
85	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
86	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
87	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
88	Lost Boys of Pickering	Jamielynne Hammond	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
89	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
90	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
91	Blue square \| مربع آبی	Raad charity	Society & Culture	4	Acast	73
92	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
93	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
94	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
95	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
96	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
97	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
98	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
99	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
100	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

The podcast landscape in Canada is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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