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 24 Aug 2026

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08/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 155

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:46:41

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. The Guardian (2 shows)

4. audiochuck (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Simplecast (8 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	940	Simplecast	38
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
3	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
7	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
13	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
14	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
15	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
16	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
18	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
19	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
22	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
23	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
24	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
25	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
27	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
29	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
30	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
31	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
32	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
34	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
35	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
36	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
38	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
39	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
40	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
41	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
42	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
44	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
45	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
46	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
47	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
48	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
49	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
50	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
52	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
53	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
54	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
55	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
56	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
57	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
58	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
59	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
60	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
61	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
62	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
63	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
64	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
65	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
66	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
67	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
69	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
70	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	113	Megaphone	68
71	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
72	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
73	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
74	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
75	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
76	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
77	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
78	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
79	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
80	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
81	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
82	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
83	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
84	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
85	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
86	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
87	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
88	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
89	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	103	Acast	73
90	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
91	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
92	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
93	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
94	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
95	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
96	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
97	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
98	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	70	Spotify for Podcasters	28
99	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
100	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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