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 Sep 2026

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09/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 140

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:43:24

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. The Guardian (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 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	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
3	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
4	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
7	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
13	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
14	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
15	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
16	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
17	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
18	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
19	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
20	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
21	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
22	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
23	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
25	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
26	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
27	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
29	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
30	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
32	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
34	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
37	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
38	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
39	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
40	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
41	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
42	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
43	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
44	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
46	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
47	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
48	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	306	WideOrbit	68
49	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
50	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
51	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
52	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
55	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
56	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
57	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
58	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
59	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
60	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
61	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
62	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
63	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
64	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
65	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
66	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
67	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
68	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
69	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
70	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
71	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
72	The Zandland Show	Zandland	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	28
73	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
74	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
75	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
76	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
77	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
78	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
79	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
80	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
81	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
82	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
83	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
84	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
85	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
86	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
87	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
88	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
89	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
90	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
91	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	32	Podbean	41
92	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
93	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
94	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
95	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
96	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
97	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
98	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
99	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
100	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59

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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