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 01 Oct 2026

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10/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:45:24

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. audiochuck (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
5	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
7	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
13	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
14	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
18	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
19	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
21	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
23	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
24	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
25	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
26	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
27	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
28	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
30	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
32	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
33	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
34	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
35	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
36	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
37	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
38	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
39	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
40	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
41	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
42	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
45	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
46	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
47	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	101	BBC	38
48	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
49	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
50	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
51	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
52	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
53	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
54	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
55	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	4	PRX	59
56	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
57	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
58	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
59	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
60	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
61	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
62	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
63	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
64	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
65	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
67	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
68	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
69	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
70	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
71	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
72	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
73	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
74	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
75	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
76	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
79	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
80	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
81	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
82	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
83	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
84	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
85	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
86	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
87	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
88	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
89	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
90	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
91	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	103	Acast	73
92	History Well Told	Prime	Society & Culture	277	Spotify for Podcasters	28
93	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
94	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
95	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	375	Audion	58
96	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
97	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
98	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
99	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	227	Acast	43

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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