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 04 Aug 2026

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08/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 168

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:44:14

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Simplecast (11 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
4	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
14	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
15	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
16	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
19	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
20	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
21	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
22	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
23	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
24	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
26	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
27	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
28	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
29	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
30	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
31	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
33	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
34	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
36	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
37	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
38	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
41	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
42	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
44	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
45	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
46	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
47	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
48	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
51	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
52	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
53	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
54	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
55	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
56	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
58	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
59	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
60	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
61	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
62	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
63	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
64	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
65	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
66	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
67	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
68	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
69	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
70	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
71	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	103	Acast	73
72	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
73	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
74	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
75	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
76	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
77	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
78	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
79	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
80	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
81	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
82	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
83	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
84	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
85	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
86	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
87	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
88	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
89	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
90	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
91	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
92	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	52
93	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
94	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
95	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
96	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
97	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
98	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
99	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
100	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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