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 Aug 2026

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08/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 157

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:47:31

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (7 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
7	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
8	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
9	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
10	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
15	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
16	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
17	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
19	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
20	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
22	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
27	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
28	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
31	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
32	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
33	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
34	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
36	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
37	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
40	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	120	Simplecast	53
41	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
42	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
43	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
44	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
45	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
47	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
48	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
49	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
50	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
51	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	58
52	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
54	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
55	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
56	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
57	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
58	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
59	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
60	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
61	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
62	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
63	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
64	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
65	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
66	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
67	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
68	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
69	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
70	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
71	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
72	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
73	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
74	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
75	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
76	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
77	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
78	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
79	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
80	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
81	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
82	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
83	Collapse: Disaster in Surfside	Treefort Media & Miami Herald	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	69
84	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
85	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
86	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
87	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
88	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
89	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
90	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	The Vanguard Wall Podcast	History	56	Buzzsprout	32
91	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
93	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
94	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
95	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
96	Coffeehouse Crime	Coffeehouse Crime	Society & Culture	895	Spreaker	49
97	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
98	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
99	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
100	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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