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 Aug 2026

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08/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 148

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:48:33

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. audiochuck (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
3	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
6	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
7	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
13	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
14	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
15	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
16	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
18	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
21	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
22	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
25	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
26	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
27	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
28	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
29	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
31	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
32	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
35	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
36	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
37	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
38	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
39	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
40	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
41	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
43	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
44	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
45	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
47	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
49	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
50	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
51	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
52	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
54	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
55	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
56	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
57	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
58	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
59	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
60	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
61	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
62	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
63	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
64	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
65	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
66	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
67	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
68	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
69	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
70	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
71	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
72	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	48
73	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
74	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
75	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
76	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
77	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
78	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
79	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
80	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
81	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
82	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
83	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
84	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
85	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
86	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
87	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
88	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
89	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
90	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
91	The Battle For Free Speech	Journalist Michael Fox, The Real News Network	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	79
92	The Consciousness Cassettes	TTT Media	Society & Culture	14	ART19	62
93	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
94	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
95	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
96	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
97	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
98	Más Allá del Rosa	Jessica Fernández	Society & Culture	228	Acast	79
99	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
100	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62

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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