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 Sep 2026

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09/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 23 days

Duration: 00:45:11

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

2. CBC (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	305	Megaphone	42
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
6	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
7	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
11	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
16	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
17	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
20	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
21	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
23	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
24	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
25	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
26	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	700	Megaphone	53
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
28	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
29	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
30	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
31	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
32	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
33	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
34	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	264	Spreaker	69
36	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
40	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
41	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
42	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
43	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
44	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
45	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
46	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
47	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	73
48	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
49	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
50	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
51	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
53	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
54	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
55	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
56	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
57	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
58	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
59	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
60	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
61	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
62	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
63	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
64	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
66	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
67	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
68	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
69	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
70	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
71	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	123	Simplecast	53
72	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
73	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
74	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
75	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
76	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	58
77	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
79	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
80	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	21	ART19	73
81	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
82	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
83	Lost Boys of Pickering	Jamielynne Hammond	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
84	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
85	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
86	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
87	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
88	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
89	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
90	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
91	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
92	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
93	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
94	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
96	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
97	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
98	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
99	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	85	Spotify for Podcasters	32
100	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62

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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