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 18 Jul 2026

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07/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 138

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:45:01

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. audiochuck (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
9	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
10	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
11	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
12	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
16	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
18	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
20	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
21	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
22	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
23	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
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	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
29	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
30	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
31	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
32	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
34	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
35	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
36	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
37	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
38	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
39	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
40	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
41	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
42	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
44	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
45	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
46	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
47	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
48	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
50	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
52	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
53	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
54	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
55	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
56	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
57	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
58	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
60	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
61	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
62	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
63	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
64	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
65	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
66	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
67	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
69	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
72	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
73	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
74	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
75	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
76	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
77	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
78	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
79	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	236	Acast	43
80	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
81	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
82	Getting Free	International Beit Din	Society & Culture	7	Podbean	63
83	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
84	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
85	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
86	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
87	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
88	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
89	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
90	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
91	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
92	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
93	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
94	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
95	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
96	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
97	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	63
98	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
99	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
100	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59

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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