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 16 Oct 2026

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10/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 134

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:45:55

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. TTT Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. ART19 (8 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
2	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
3	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
4	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	266	WideOrbit	48
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
7	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
8	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
14	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
15	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
20	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	439	Megaphone	32
22	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	115	BBC	38
24	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
25	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
26	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	52
27	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
28	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
29	Deep Secrets	NOTHING TO SEE HERE INC	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	69
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
32	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
33	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
34	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
35	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	205	Simplecast	58
36	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
37	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
39	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
40	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
41	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
44	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	64
45	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
46	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
47	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	216	Acast	79
48	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
49	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	304	WideOrbit	68
50	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
51	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
52	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	23	Captivate	73
53	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
54	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
55	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
56	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
57	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
58	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
60	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
61	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	3	ART19	58
62	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	86	Spreaker	43
63	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
64	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
65	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
66	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
67	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	463	Acast	74
68	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	231	Acast	43
69	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
70	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
71	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
72	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
73	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	104	Acast	73
74	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
75	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	16	Transistor	73
76	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
77	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
78	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
79	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
80	Paranoid American	Paranoid American	News	407	RedCircle	53
81	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
82	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	72	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
84	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
85	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
86	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	62
87	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	548	Audion	58
88	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	169	Spotify for Podcasters	28
89	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
90	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
91	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
92	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
93	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
94	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	159	Simplecast	63
95	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	292	Acast	69
96	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
97	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
98	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
99	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
100	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59

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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