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 08 May 2026

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05/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 152

Frequency: every 44 days

Duration: 00:46:15

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
3	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
11	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
26	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
27	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
30	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
31	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
32	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
34	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
35	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
36	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
37	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
38	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
39	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
40	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
42	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
44	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
45	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
46	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
49	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
50	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
51	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
52	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
53	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
54	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
55	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
56	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
57	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
59	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
60	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
61	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
62	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
63	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
64	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
65	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
66	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
67	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
68	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
69	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
70	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
71	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
72	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
73	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
74	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
75	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
76	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
77	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
78	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
79	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
80	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
81	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
82	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
83	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
84	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
85	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
86	MIS(TER)GENDERED	Sar White	Society & Culture	6	Buzzsprout	58
87	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
88	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
89	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
90	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
92	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
93	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
94	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
95	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan	Society & Culture	375	Blubrry Podcasting	43
96	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
97	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
98	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
99	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
100	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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