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 Aug 2026

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08/31/2026

Average data

Episodes: 171

Frequency: every 23 days

Duration: 00:44:09

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. BBC (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1008	Simplecast	38
2	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
3	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
8	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
9	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
11	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
15	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
17	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
18	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	700	Megaphone	53
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
23	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
24	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	264	Spreaker	69
25	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
26	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
30	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
31	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
33	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
34	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
35	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	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	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	40	BBC	58
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
40	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
41	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
42	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
43	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
44	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
45	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
46	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	203	Simplecast	58
47	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
48	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
49	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	21	ART19	73
50	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
51	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
52	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	73
53	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
54	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
55	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
56	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
57	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	541	Audion	58
58	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
60	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
61	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
62	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
63	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
64	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
67	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
68	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
69	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
70	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
71	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
72	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
73	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
74	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
75	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
76	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
77	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
78	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
79	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
80	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
81	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
82	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
83	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
84	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
85	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
87	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
88	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
89	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
90	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
91	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
92	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
93	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
94	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
95	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
96	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
97	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
98	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
99	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
100	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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