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 Aug 2026

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08/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 146

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:43:19

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
7	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
8	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
12	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
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	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
16	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
17	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
19	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
21	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
22	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
23	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
24	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
25	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
26	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
27	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
28	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
30	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
31	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
32	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
33	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
34	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
35	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
36	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
37	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
39	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
40	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
41	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
42	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
43	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
44	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
45	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
46	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
47	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
48	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
49	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
50	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
51	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
52	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
53	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
55	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
56	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
57	Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Erin Elizabeth Hynes of Pina Travels	Society & Culture	158	Audioboom	47
58	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
59	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
60	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
61	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
62	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
63	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
64	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
65	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
66	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
67	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
68	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
69	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
70	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
71	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
72	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
73	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
74	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
75	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
76	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
77	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
78	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
79	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
80	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
81	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
82	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
83	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
84	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
85	Blue square \| مربع آبی	Raad charity	Society & Culture	4	Acast	73
86	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
87	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
89	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
90	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
91	Stories with Matt Cullen	Matt Cullen	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	38
92	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
93	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
94	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
95	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
96	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
97	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
98	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
99	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
100	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53

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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