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 Aug 2026

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08/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 150

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:43:54

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
2	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
3	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
7	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
8	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
9	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
11	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
12	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
14	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
17	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
18	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
19	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
20	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
21	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
24	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
25	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
27	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
28	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
29	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
30	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
31	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
32	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
33	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
34	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
35	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
36	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
37	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
39	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
40	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
41	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
42	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
43	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
45	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
46	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
49	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
51	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
52	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
53	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
54	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
55	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
56	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
57	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
58	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
59	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
60	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
61	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
62	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
63	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
64	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
65	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
66	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
67	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
68	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
71	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
72	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
73	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
74	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
75	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
76	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
77	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
78	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
79	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
80	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
81	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
82	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
83	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	103	Acast	73
84	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
85	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
87	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
88	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
89	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
90	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
91	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
92	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
93	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
94	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
95	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
96	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
97	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
98	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
99	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
100	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78

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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