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 23 Jul 2026

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07/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 135

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:43:45

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
10	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
11	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	268	WideOrbit	48
12	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
13	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
17	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
18	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	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	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
25	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
26	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
27	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
28	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
29	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	120	BBC	38
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
31	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
32	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
33	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
34	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
35	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
36	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
37	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
38	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
39	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
40	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
41	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
42	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
43	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
45	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
46	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
47	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
48	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
50	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
51	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
52	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	449	Acast	74
54	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
55	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
58	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
59	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
60	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
61	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
63	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
64	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
65	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
66	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
67	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
68	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
69	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
70	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
71	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
72	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
73	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
74	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
75	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
76	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
77	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	383	Audion	58
78	The Last Soviet	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	59
79	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
80	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	58	Audiomeans	73
81	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
82	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
83	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
84	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
85	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
86	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
87	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
88	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
89	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
90	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
91	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
92	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
93	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
94	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
95	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
96	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
97	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
98	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
99	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	104	Acast	73
100	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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