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 31 Jul 2026

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07/31/2026

Average data

Episodes: 134

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:45:38

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
3	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
8	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
9	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
14	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
15	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
16	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
17	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
18	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
19	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
20	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
21	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
22	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
23	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
25	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
26	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
27	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
28	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
29	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
30	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
31	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
32	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
33	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
36	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
37	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
39	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
40	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
41	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
42	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
43	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
44	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
45	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
46	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
47	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
48	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
49	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
50	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
51	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
52	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
53	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
56	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
57	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
58	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
59	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
60	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
62	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
63	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
64	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
65	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
66	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
67	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
68	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
69	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
70	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
71	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
72	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
73	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
74	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
75	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
76	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
77	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	103	Acast	73
78	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
79	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
80	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
81	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
82	Lost Boys of Pickering	Jamielynne Hammond	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
83	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
84	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
85	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
86	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
87	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
88	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	166	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
90	Blue square \| مربع آبی	Raad charity	Society & Culture	4	Acast	73
91	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
92	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
93	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
94	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
95	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
96	Perce les nuages	Sylvia Mantha	Society & Culture	43	Spotify for Podcasters	43
97	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
98	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
99	Truth or Demons Podcast	Stevi	Society & Culture	59	Spotify for Podcasters	38
100	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63

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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