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 25 Jul 2026

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07/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 136

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:43:33

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
9	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
11	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
12	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
16	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
17	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
19	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
20	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
21	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
25	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
26	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
27	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
29	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
30	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
31	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
32	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
33	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
36	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
37	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
39	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
40	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
41	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
42	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
44	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
45	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
46	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
47	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
48	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
49	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
52	Blue square \| مربع آبی	Raad charity	Society & Culture	4	Acast	73
53	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
54	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
55	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
56	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
58	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
59	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
60	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
61	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
62	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
63	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
64	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
65	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
66	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
67	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
68	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
69	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
70	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
71	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
72	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway Details temporarily unavailable	Sky News	Society & Culture	10	Captivate	42
73	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
74	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	102	Acast	73
75	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
76	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
77	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
78	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
79	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
80	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
81	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
82	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
83	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
84	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
85	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
86	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
87	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
88	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
89	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
90	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
91	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
92	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
93	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
94	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
95	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
96	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
97	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
98	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
99	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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