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 13 Jul 2026

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07/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 156

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:46:02

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Audible (2 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
5	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
6	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
9	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
14	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
17	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
18	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
19	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
20	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
21	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
22	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
23	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
25	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
26	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
27	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
29	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
31	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
36	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
37	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
38	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
39	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
40	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
41	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
42	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
43	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
45	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
46	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
47	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
48	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
49	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
50	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
51	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
52	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
53	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
54	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
55	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
57	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
58	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
59	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
60	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
61	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
62	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
63	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
64	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
65	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
66	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
67	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
68	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
69	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
70	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
71	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
72	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
73	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
74	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
75	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
76	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
77	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
78	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
79	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
80	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
81	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
82	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
83	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
84	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
85	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
86	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
87	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
88	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
89	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
90	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
91	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
92	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
93	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	103	Acast	73
94	Perce les nuages	Sylvia Mantha	Society & Culture	43	Spotify for Podcasters	43
95	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
96	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
97	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
98	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
99	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
100	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28

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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