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 Aug 2026

Country

Main category

Sub category

Date

08/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 144

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:44:47

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
3	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
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	15	PRX	69
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
10	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
13	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
14	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
17	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
18	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
19	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
20	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	143	N/A	N/A
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
22	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
23	Question Everything	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	89	Omny Studio	63
24	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
25	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	70	Acast	83
26	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
27	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
28	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	271	WideOrbit	48
29	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
30	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
31	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
33	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
34	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
35	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
36	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
37	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
38	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
39	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
40	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
41	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
43	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
44	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
45	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
46	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
47	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
48	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
49	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
51	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
52	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
53	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
54	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
55	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
56	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
57	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
58	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
60	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
61	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
62	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
63	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
64	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
65	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
66	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	386	Audion	58
67	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
68	Stories with Matt Cullen	Matt Cullen	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
70	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
71	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
72	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
73	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
74	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
75	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
76	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
77	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
78	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
79	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
80	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
81	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
82	Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Erin Elizabeth Hynes of Pina Travels	Society & Culture	158	Audioboom	47
83	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
84	Blue square \| مربع آبی	Raad charity	Society & Culture	4	Acast	73
85	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
86	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
87	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
88	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
89	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
90	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
91	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
92	The Other Latif	WNYC Studios	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
93	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
94	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
95	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
96	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
97	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
98	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
100	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79

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.

For those interested in podcast creation, knowing the best hosting services and the most successful authors in your category can provide a competitive edge. Whether you're looking to start your own show or just want to see what's popular, this ranking offers a valuable snapshot of the podcasting world in Canada.
Explore more data on podcast rankings by diving into other categories and countries, and stay ahead in the ever-changing podcast scene.

Previous charts Next charts

About Methodology Contact Support me Privacy Policy Legal Notice