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 02 Sep 2026

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09/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 142

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:44:13

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
6	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
9	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	823	Megaphone	53
12	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
13	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
14	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
17	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
18	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
21	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
23	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	63
24	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
25	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
26	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
29	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
30	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
31	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
32	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
33	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
35	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
36	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
39	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
40	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
41	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
43	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
44	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
45	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
46	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
47	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
48	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
49	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
50	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
51	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
52	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	456	Acast	74
53	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
55	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
56	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
57	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
58	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
59	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
60	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
61	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
62	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
63	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
64	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
65	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
66	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
67	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
68	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
69	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
70	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
71	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
72	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
73	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
74	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
75	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
76	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
77	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
78	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
79	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
80	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
81	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
82	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
83	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	161	Omny Studio	69
84	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
85	پادکست داستانی ترپند /TarPand	Tarpand	Society & Culture	57	Acast	79
86	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
87	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
88	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
89	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
90	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
91	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
92	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
93	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
94	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
96	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
97	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
98	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
99	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	58
100	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53

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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