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 Sep 2026

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09/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 127

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:42:31

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

2. The Guardian (2 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
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	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
8	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
11	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
16	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
17	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
18	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
20	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
21	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
22	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
23	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
24	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
25	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
26	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
28	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
30	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
32	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
33	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
34	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
35	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
36	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
40	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
41	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
42	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
43	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
44	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
45	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
46	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	306	WideOrbit	68
47	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	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	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
51	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
52	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
53	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
56	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
57	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
58	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
59	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
60	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
61	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
62	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
63	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	32	Podbean	41
64	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
65	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
66	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
67	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
68	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
69	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
70	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
71	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
72	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
73	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
74	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
75	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
76	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
77	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
78	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
79	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
80	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
81	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
82	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
83	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
84	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
85	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
86	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
87	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
88	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
89	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
90	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
91	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
92	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
93	The Zandland Show	Zandland	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	28
94	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
95	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
96	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
97	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
98	人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材	厭世姬＆邊角料	Society & Culture	216	Firstory	43
99	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
100	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69

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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