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 Aug 2026

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08/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 140

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:44:54

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. The Guardian (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Omny Studio (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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
6	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
7	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
12	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
13	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
14	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
15	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
16	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
17	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
18	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
19	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
20	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
22	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
23	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
25	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
26	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
28	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
30	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
31	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
32	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
33	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
35	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
36	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
37	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
41	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
42	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
43	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
44	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
45	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
46	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
47	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
48	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
49	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
52	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
54	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
55	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
56	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
57	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
58	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
59	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
60	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
61	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
62	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
63	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
65	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
66	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
67	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
68	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
69	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
70	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
71	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
72	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
73	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
74	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
75	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
76	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	110	Megaphone	68
77	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
78	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
79	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
80	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
81	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
82	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
83	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
84	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
85	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
86	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
88	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
89	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
90	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	48
91	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
92	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
93	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
94	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
95	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
96	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
97	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
98	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
99	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
100	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83

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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