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 Aug 2026

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08/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 152

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:46:34

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

2. BBC (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. The Guardian (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Simplecast (11 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
3	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
6	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
7	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
8	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
9	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
12	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
13	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
15	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
17	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
18	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
21	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
22	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
23	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
24	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
25	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
26	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
27	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
28	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
29	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
31	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
32	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
33	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
34	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
35	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
36	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
37	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
38	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
39	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
40	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
41	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
44	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
45	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
46	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
48	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
49	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
50	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
51	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
52	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
53	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
54	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
55	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
56	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
57	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
58	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
59	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
60	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
61	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
62	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
63	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
64	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
65	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
66	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
67	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
68	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
69	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
70	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
71	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
72	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
73	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
74	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
75	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
76	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
77	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
79	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
80	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
81	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
82	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
84	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	70	Spotify for Podcasters	28
85	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
86	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
87	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
88	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
89	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
90	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
91	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	113	Megaphone	68
92	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
93	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
94	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
95	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
96	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
97	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
98	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
99	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
100	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28

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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