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: 156

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:44:49

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
6	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
12	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
13	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
14	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
16	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
17	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
21	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
22	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	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	145	N/A	N/A
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	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	132	BBC	38
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
30	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
31	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	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	127	Simplecast	53
34	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	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	219	Megaphone	38
38	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
39	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
40	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
41	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
42	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
43	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
44	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
45	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	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	388	Audion	58
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	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	92	Acast	52
55	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
56	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
57	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	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	94	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	13	Acast	63
64	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
65	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
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	214	Acast	79
69	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
70	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
71	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
72	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
73	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
74	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
75	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
76	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
77	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	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	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
81	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	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	25	Captivate	73
86	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
87	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
88	Perce les nuages	Sylvia Mantha	Society & Culture	43	Spotify for Podcasters	43
89	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
90	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
91	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
92	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	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	193	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	157	Megaphone	63
98	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
99	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
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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