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 17 Jul 2026

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07/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 143

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:46:27

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. Audible (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
4	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
9	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
10	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
13	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	267	WideOrbit	48
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
15	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
19	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
21	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
22	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
23	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
25	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
27	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
29	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
30	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
31	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
32	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
33	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
35	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
36	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
37	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
38	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
39	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
40	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
41	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
42	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
43	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
44	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
47	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
48	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
49	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
50	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
51	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
52	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
55	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
56	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
57	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
58	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
59	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
60	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
61	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
62	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	232	Acast	43
63	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
64	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
65	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
66	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
67	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
68	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
69	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
70	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	170	Spotify for Podcasters	28
71	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
72	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
73	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
74	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
75	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
76	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
77	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
78	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
79	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
80	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
81	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
82	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	381	Audion	58
83	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
84	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
85	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
86	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
87	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
88	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
89	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
90	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
91	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
92	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
93	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	274	Megaphone	32
94	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
95	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
96	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
97	We the Unhoused	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	130	Omny Studio	48
98	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
99	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	166	Omny Studio	69
100	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53

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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