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 22 Jul 2026

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07/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 130

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:42:01

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
8	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
9	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
11	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
12	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
13	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
14	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
17	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
19	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
21	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
23	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
24	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
25	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
27	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
28	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
31	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
32	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
34	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
35	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
37	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
40	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
41	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
42	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
43	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
45	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
46	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
47	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
48	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
49	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
50	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
51	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
52	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
53	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
54	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
55	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
56	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
57	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway Details temporarily unavailable	Sky News	Society & Culture	10	Captivate	42
58	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
59	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
60	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
61	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
62	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
63	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
64	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
65	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
66	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
67	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
68	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
70	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
71	The Last Soviet	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	59
72	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
73	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
74	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
75	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
76	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
77	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
78	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
79	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
80	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
81	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
82	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
83	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
84	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
85	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
86	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
87	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
88	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
89	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
90	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
91	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
92	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
93	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
94	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
95	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
96	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
97	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	21	Captivate	73
98	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
99	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
100	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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