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 09 juil. 2026

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07/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 152

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:43:31

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
5	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
9	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
12	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
15	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
18	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
20	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
21	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
22	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
23	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
24	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
25	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
26	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
27	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
28	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
33	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
34	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
35	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
36	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
37	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
38	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
39	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
40	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
41	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
42	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
43	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
46	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
47	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
48	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	58
49	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
50	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
52	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
53	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
54	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
55	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
56	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
57	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
58	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
60	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
61	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
62	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
63	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
64	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
65	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
66	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
67	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
68	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
69	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
70	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
71	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
72	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
73	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
74	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
75	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
76	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
77	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
78	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
79	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
80	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
81	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
83	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
84	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
85	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	85	Acast	89
86	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	481	Omny Studio	68
87	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
88	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
89	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
90	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
91	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
92	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
93	Autoimmunity and the Good Girls: Behind-the-Page with Sara Hirsh Bordo	Women Rising®	Society & Culture	10	Podbean	68
94	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
95	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
96	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
97	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
98	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
99	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
100	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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