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 Sep 2026

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09/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 143

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:46:33

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
2	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	305	Megaphone	42
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
8	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
11	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
12	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
13	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
14	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	700	Megaphone	53
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
17	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
20	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
21	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	264	Spreaker	69
22	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
23	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
25	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
28	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
29	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
30	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
31	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
32	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
33	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
34	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
35	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
36	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
37	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
38	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
39	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
40	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
41	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
42	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
43	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
44	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
45	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
46	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
47	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
48	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
49	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
50	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
51	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
52	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
53	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
54	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	73
55	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
56	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
57	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
58	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	21	ART19	73
59	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
60	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
61	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
63	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	123	Simplecast	53
64	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
65	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
66	پادکست داستانی ترپند /TarPand	Tarpand	Society & Culture	57	Acast	79
67	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
68	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
69	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
70	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
71	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
72	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
73	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
74	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
75	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
76	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	73
77	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
78	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
79	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
80	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
81	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
82	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
83	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
84	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
85	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
86	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
87	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
88	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
89	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
90	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
91	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
93	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
94	Le dernier vol de Raymond Boulanger : Révélations	iHeartRadio	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
95	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
96	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
97	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
98	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	History	56	Buzzsprout	32
99	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
100	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62

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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