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 27 Aug 2026

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08/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 139

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:44:37

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. The Guardian (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
6	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
7	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
11	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	271	WideOrbit	48
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
13	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
14	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
15	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	143	N/A	N/A
16	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
17	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
18	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
21	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	70	Acast	83
22	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
23	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
24	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
26	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
27	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
28	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
29	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
31	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
32	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
33	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
34	Question Everything	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	89	Omny Studio	63
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
36	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
37	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
40	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
41	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
42	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
43	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
45	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
46	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
47	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
48	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
49	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
50	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
51	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
52	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
53	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
55	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
57	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
58	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
59	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
60	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
61	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
62	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
63	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
64	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
65	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
66	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
67	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
68	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
69	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
70	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
71	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
72	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
73	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
74	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
75	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	386	Audion	58
76	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
77	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
79	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
80	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
81	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
84	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
85	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	235	Acast	43
86	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
87	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
88	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
89	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
90	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
91	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
92	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
93	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
94	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
95	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
96	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
97	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
98	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
99	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
100	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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