Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Canada - Category Documentary

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 02 Aug 2026

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08/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 148

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:46:24

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Author	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	104	Acast	73
2	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	948	Simplecast	38
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	25	Spreaker	84
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	361	ART19	68
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	163	Acast	43
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	317	Megaphone	42
9	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	149	Megaphone	68
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
14	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
15	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	448	Megaphone	32
17	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
18	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	275	WideOrbit	48
19	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	73	Acast	83
20	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
21	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	17	PRX	69
22	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
23	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	28	RSS.com	58
24	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	109	Acast	79
26	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	32	Acast	83
27	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	161	N/A	N/A
28	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	92	Omny Studio	63
29	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
30	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	274	Spreaker	69
32	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
33	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	57	Megaphone	48
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	59	PRX	74
35	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	168	Acast	69
38	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
39	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
40	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
41	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	134	BBC	38
42	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	130	Simplecast	53
43	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	456	Acast	74
44	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
45	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	6	ART19	63
46	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	28	ART19	73
47	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
48	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
49	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	714	Megaphone	53
50	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	221	Megaphone	38
51	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	68
52	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	216	Acast	79
53	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	30	American Public Media	62
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	287	Megaphone	43
55	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	6	ART19	63
56	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
57	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
58	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
59	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
60	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	393	Audion	58
61	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	14	Acast	63
62	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
63	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
64	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
65	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	157	Spotify for Podcasters	52
66	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	193	PRX	79
67	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	56	RedCircle	73
68	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
69	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
70	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
71	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
72	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
73	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1213	Acast	59
74	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
75	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
76	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	375	Omny Studio	73
77	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
78	Strangeology	Strangeology Podcast	Society & Culture	100	Spreaker	59
79	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	73
80	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	24	Buzzsprout	42
81	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	84	Megaphone	62
82	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
83	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
84	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
85	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	101	WideOrbit	68
86	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
87	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
88	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
89	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	40	Octopus	59
90	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
91	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
92	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	178	Spotify for Podcasters	28
93	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	195	Ximalaya	53
94	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
95	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	96	Libsyn	62
96	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
97	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
98	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
99	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
100	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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