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 10 May 2026

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05/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 164

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:45:03

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

2. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Cogeco Média (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (8 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1016	Simplecast	38
2	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	158	Acast	73
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
5	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
6	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	381	Spreaker	84
7	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	537	ART19	68
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
11	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	445	Megaphone	32
13	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	104	BBC	53
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	72	Acast	83
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	234	Acast	79
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
21	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	108	PRX	74
23	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	272	Spreaker	69
24	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
25	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
26	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
27	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
29	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	200	BBC	38
30	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	266	Acast	69
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
33	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
34	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
35	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	100	WideOrbit	68
36	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
37	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	831	Megaphone	53
39	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
41	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
42	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
43	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
44	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	218	Acast	79
45	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	235	PRX	79
47	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
48	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
49	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	377	Megaphone	43
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	11	ART19	63
52	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
53	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
54	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
55	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
56	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	467	Acast	74
57	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
58	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
59	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
60	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
61	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
62	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
63	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
64	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	985	Megaphone	52
65	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
66	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
67	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	293	Acast	69
68	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
69	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
70	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
71	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
72	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
73	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
74	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
75	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	19	ART19	63
76	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
77	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	78
78	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
79	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	42
80	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
81	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
82	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	555	Audion	58
83	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
84	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
85	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
86	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
87	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
88	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
89	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
90	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
91	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
92	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
93	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
94	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
95	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
97	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
98	MIS(TER)GENDERED	Sar White	Society & Culture	6	Buzzsprout	58
99	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
100	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84

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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