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 Aug 2026

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08/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 142

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:46:06

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
5	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
14	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
15	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
17	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
18	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
22	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
23	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
24	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
25	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	823	Megaphone	53
26	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
27	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
28	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
30	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
31	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
32	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
33	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	63
34	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
35	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
36	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
40	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
41	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
42	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
43	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	456	Acast	74
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
45	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
46	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
47	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
48	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
49	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
51	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
52	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
53	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
56	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
57	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
58	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
60	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
61	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
62	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
63	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
64	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
65	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
66	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
69	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
70	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
71	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
72	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
73	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
74	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
75	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
76	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
77	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
79	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
80	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
81	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
82	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
83	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
84	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
85	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
86	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
87	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
88	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
89	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
90	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
91	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
92	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
93	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
94	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
95	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
96	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
97	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
98	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
99	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
100	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42

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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