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 28 Aug 2026

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08/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 134

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:45:47

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
2	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
7	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
9	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
10	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
15	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
16	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
17	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
18	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
19	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
20	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
22	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
23	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
24	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
25	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
27	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
29	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
30	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
31	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
32	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
33	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
34	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
35	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
36	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
37	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
38	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
41	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
44	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
45	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
46	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
47	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
48	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	306	WideOrbit	68
49	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
50	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
51	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
52	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
53	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
54	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
55	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
57	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
58	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
59	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
60	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
61	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
64	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
65	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
66	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
67	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
68	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
69	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
70	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
71	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
72	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
73	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
74	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
75	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
76	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
77	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
78	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
79	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
80	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
81	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
82	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
83	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
84	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
85	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
86	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
87	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
88	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
89	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
90	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
91	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
92	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
93	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
94	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
95	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	236	Acast	43
96	Odessa	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	73
97	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
98	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
99	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
100	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52

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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