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 29 Jul 2026

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07/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 155

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:44:32

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
2	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
6	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
13	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
14	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
16	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
17	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
21	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
22	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
23	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
24	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
26	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
27	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
30	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
31	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
32	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
33	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	120	Simplecast	53
34	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	58
35	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
36	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
37	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
38	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
39	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
40	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
41	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
42	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
43	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
44	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
45	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
47	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
48	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
49	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
51	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
52	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
53	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
54	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
55	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
56	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
57	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
58	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
59	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
60	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
61	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	Blue square \| مربع آبی	Raad charity	Society & Culture	4	Acast	73
63	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
64	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
65	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
66	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
67	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
69	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
70	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
71	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
72	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
73	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
74	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
75	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
76	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
77	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
78	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
79	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
80	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
81	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
82	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
83	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
84	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
85	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
86	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
87	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
88	Perce les nuages	Sylvia Mantha	Society & Culture	34	Spotify for Podcasters	43
89	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
90	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
91	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
92	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
93	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
95	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
96	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
97	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
98	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
99	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
100	The Consciousness Cassettes	TTT Media	Society & Culture	14	ART19	62

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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