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 07 May 2026

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05/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 157

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:45:39

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
2	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
3	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
5	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	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 Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
17	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
20	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
22	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
25	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
28	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	102	BBC	38
31	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
32	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
33	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
34	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
35	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
36	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
37	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
38	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
39	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
40	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
42	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
43	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
44	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
45	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
46	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
47	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
48	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
49	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
50	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
51	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
52	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
53	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
54	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
55	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
56	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
57	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
58	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
59	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
60	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	375	Audion	58
61	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
62	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
63	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
64	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
65	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
66	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
67	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
68	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
69	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
70	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
71	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
72	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
73	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
74	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
75	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
76	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
77	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
78	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
79	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
80	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
81	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	17	Acast	90
82	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
83	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
84	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
85	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
86	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
87	Deliver Us From Ervil	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	69
88	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
89	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
90	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
91	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
92	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
93	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
94	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
95	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
96	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
97	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
98	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
99	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
100	Strangeology	Strangeology Podcast	Society & Culture	100	Spreaker	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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