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 août 2026

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08/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 133

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:45:25

Top 5 authors

1. The Observer (2 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. ART19 (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
2	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	156	Acast	43
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	303	Megaphone	42
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	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	141	Megaphone	68
9	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
10	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
11	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	259	WideOrbit	48
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	32
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
15	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	64	Acast	83
17	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
20	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
23	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
25	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
26	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
27	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
28	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
30	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
31	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
32	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
34	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
35	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
36	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	122	Simplecast	53
37	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	190	Simplecast	58
38	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	83	Unknown	63
39	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
40	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
41	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
42	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
43	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
44	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
45	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
49	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
50	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
51	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
52	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	370	Audion	58
53	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
54	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	110	Megaphone	68
55	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
56	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
57	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
58	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
60	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
61	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
62	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
63	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
64	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
65	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
66	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
67	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
68	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	149	Spotify for Podcasters	52
69	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
70	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
71	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
72	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
73	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
74	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
75	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
76	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	400	Buzzsprout	83
77	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
78	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
79	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
80	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
81	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
82	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
83	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
84	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
85	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
86	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
87	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
88	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
89	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	76	Megaphone	62
90	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
91	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
92	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
93	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
94	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
95	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
96	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
97	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	491	RedCircle	43
98	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
99	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
100	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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