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 Aug 2026

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08/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 151

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:45:43

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

3. The Guardian (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
7	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	267	WideOrbit	48
8	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
12	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
13	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
14	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
17	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
18	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
19	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
20	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
22	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
23	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
24	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
25	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
28	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
29	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
30	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
32	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
33	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
34	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
37	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
38	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
39	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
40	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
41	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
45	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
46	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
47	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
48	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
49	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
50	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
51	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
52	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
53	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
54	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
55	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
56	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
58	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
59	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
60	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
61	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
62	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	381	Audion	58
63	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
64	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
65	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
66	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
67	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
68	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
69	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
70	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
71	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
72	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
73	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
74	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
75	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
76	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
77	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
78	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
79	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
80	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	232	Acast	43
81	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
82	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
83	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
84	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
85	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
86	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	170	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
88	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
89	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	298	Audioboom	58
90	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
91	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
92	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
93	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
94	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
95	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
96	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
97	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
98	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
99	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
100	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42

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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