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 Aug 2026

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08/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 142

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:43:49

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. The Guardian (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. Omny Studio (12 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
10	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
11	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
13	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
16	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
21	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
22	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
23	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
24	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
25	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
26	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
27	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
28	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
30	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
31	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
32	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
33	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
35	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
36	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
37	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
38	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
39	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
41	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
42	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
43	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
44	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
45	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
46	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
47	Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Erin Elizabeth Hynes of Pina Travels	Society & Culture	158	Audioboom	47
48	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
51	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
52	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
54	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
55	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
56	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
57	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
58	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
59	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
60	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
61	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
62	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
63	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
64	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
66	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
67	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
68	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
69	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
70	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
71	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
72	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
73	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	History	56	Buzzsprout	32
74	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
75	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
76	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
77	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
78	Blue square \| مربع آبی	Raad charity	Society & Culture	4	Acast	73
79	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
80	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
81	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
82	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
83	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
84	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
85	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
86	Derrière l'uniforme	M105	Society & Culture	2	Omny Studio	58
87	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
88	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
89	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
90	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
91	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
92	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
93	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
94	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
95	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
96	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
97	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
98	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
99	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
100	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68

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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