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 05 Jul 2026

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07/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 161

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:44:53

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
12	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
13	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
17	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
18	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
19	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
20	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
21	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
22	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
23	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
25	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
26	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
28	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
29	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
30	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
31	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
33	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
34	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
36	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
38	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
39	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
41	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
42	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
43	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
44	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
45	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
46	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
47	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
48	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
50	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
51	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
52	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
53	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
54	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
55	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
56	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
57	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
58	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
59	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
60	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
61	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
62	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
63	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
64	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
65	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
66	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
67	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
68	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
69	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
70	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
71	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
72	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
73	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
74	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
75	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
76	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
77	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
78	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
79	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
80	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
81	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
82	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
83	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
84	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
85	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
86	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
87	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
88	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
89	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
90	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
91	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
92	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
93	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
94	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
95	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
96	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
97	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	27
98	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
99	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
100	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83

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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