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 06 Aug 2026

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08/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 142

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:41:20

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

3. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
2	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
6	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
11	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
12	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
13	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
20	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
21	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
22	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
23	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
24	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
25	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	58
26	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
28	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
29	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
30	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
31	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
32	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
34	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
35	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
38	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
39	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
40	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
41	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
42	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
43	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
45	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
46	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
47	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
48	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
49	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
50	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
51	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
52	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
53	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
54	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
55	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
56	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
57	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
58	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
59	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
60	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	120	Simplecast	53
61	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
62	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
63	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
64	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
65	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
66	Derrière l'uniforme	M105	Society & Culture	2	Omny Studio	58
67	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
68	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
69	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
70	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
71	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
72	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
73	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
74	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
75	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
76	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
77	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
79	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
80	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
81	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
82	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
83	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
84	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
85	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
86	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
87	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
88	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
89	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
90	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	81	Spotify for Podcasters	52
91	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
92	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
93	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
94	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
95	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
97	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
98	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
99	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
100	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42

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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