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 16 Jul 2026

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07/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 160

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:46:09

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
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	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
10	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	271	WideOrbit	48
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
15	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
17	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
18	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
19	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
21	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
25	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
28	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
29	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
30	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
32	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
33	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
34	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
35	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
36	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
37	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
41	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
44	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
45	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
46	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
47	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
48	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
49	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
50	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
51	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
52	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
53	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
54	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
55	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
56	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
57	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
58	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
59	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
60	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
61	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
62	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	235	Acast	43
63	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
64	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
65	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
66	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
67	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
68	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
69	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
70	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
71	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
72	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
73	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
74	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
75	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
76	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
77	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
78	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
79	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
80	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
81	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
82	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
83	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
84	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
85	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
86	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
87	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
88	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
89	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
90	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
91	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
92	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
93	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
94	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
95	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
96	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
97	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
98	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
99	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
100	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63

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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