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 Aug 2026

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08/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 147

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:45:57

Top 5 authors

1. Audible (2 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
8	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
9	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
12	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
13	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
14	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
16	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
18	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
19	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
22	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
23	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
24	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
25	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
28	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
29	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
30	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
32	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
33	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
34	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
35	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
36	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
37	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
38	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
40	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
41	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
43	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
44	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
45	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
46	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
49	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
51	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
53	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
54	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
55	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
56	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
57	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
58	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
59	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
60	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
61	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
62	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	113	Megaphone	68
63	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
64	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
65	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
66	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
67	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
68	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
69	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
70	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
71	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
72	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
73	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
74	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
75	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
76	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
77	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
78	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
79	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
80	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
81	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
82	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
83	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
84	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
85	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
86	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
87	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
88	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
89	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
90	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
91	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
92	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
93	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
94	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
95	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
96	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
97	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
98	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
99	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
100	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73

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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