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 12 Aug 2026

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08/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 156

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:48:07

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
8	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
9	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
10	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
13	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
14	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
15	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
18	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
19	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
24	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
25	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
28	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
30	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
31	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
32	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
34	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
35	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
37	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
38	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
39	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
40	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
41	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
42	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
43	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
44	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
45	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
47	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
48	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
49	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
50	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
51	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
52	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
53	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
54	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
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	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
58	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
59	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
60	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
61	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
62	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	32	Podbean	41
63	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
64	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
65	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
66	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
67	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
68	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
69	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
70	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
71	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
72	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
73	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
74	Coffeehouse Crime	Coffeehouse Crime	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	49
75	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
76	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
77	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	History	56	Buzzsprout	32
78	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
79	C'est arrivé le...	QUB radio	Society & Culture	4	Omny Studio	59
80	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
81	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
83	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
84	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
85	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
86	Collapse: Disaster in Surfside	Treefort Media & Miami Herald	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	69
87	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
88	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
89	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	355	Simplecast	78
90	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
91	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
92	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
93	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
94	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
95	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
96	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
97	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
98	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
99	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
100	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73

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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