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 Jul 2026

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07/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 165

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:44:48

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
12	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
14	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
15	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
19	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
21	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
22	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
23	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
24	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
25	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
26	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
29	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
30	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
31	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
32	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
34	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
35	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
36	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
38	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
40	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
41	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
42	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
43	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
44	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
45	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
46	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
47	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
48	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
49	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
50	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
52	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
53	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
54	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
55	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
56	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
57	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
58	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
59	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
60	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
61	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
62	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
63	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
64	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
65	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
66	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
67	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
68	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
69	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
70	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
71	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
72	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
73	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
74	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
75	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
76	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
77	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
78	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
79	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
80	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
81	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
82	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
83	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
84	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
85	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
86	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
87	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	82	Megaphone	62
88	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
90	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
91	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
92	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
93	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
94	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
95	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
96	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	92	Spotify for Podcasters	32
97	I Survived The Wild Outdoors	Brad Mathewson	Society & Culture	59	Acast	68
98	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
99	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
100	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	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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