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 15 juil. 2026

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07/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 188

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:45:29

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	379	Spreaker	84
2	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	143	Acast	73
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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1006	Simplecast	38
6	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
13	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
17	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
18	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
19	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
22	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
23	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
24	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
25	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
26	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
27	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
29	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
30	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
31	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
32	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
33	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
34	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
35	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	821	Megaphone	53
36	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
37	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
38	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
39	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
40	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
41	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
42	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
43	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
44	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
45	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	58
46	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
47	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
48	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
49	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
51	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
52	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	17	ART19	63
53	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
54	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
55	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	263	Acast	69
56	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
57	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
58	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
59	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
60	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
61	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
62	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
63	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
64	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
65	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
66	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
67	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
68	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
69	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
70	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
71	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
72	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
73	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
74	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
75	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
76	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
77	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
78	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
79	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
80	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
81	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
82	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	16	Transistor	73
83	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
84	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
85	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
86	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
87	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
88	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
89	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
90	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
92	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
93	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
94	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
95	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
96	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
97	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
98	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
99	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
100	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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