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 02 Oct 2026

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10/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 146

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:45:52

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	42	BBC	58
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
4	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
5	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	103	BBC	53
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1010	Simplecast	38
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	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	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
13	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
14	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
15	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
17	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
18	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
21	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
22	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
23	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
24	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	204	Simplecast	58
25	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
27	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
28	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
29	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
32	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
33	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
34	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
36	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	172	BBC	38
37	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
38	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
39	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
40	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
42	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
43	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
44	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
45	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
46	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
47	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
48	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
51	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
52	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
53	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
54	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
55	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
56	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	4	PRX	59
57	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
58	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
59	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
60	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	303	WideOrbit	68
61	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
64	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
65	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
66	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
67	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
68	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
69	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
70	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
71	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
72	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
73	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
74	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
75	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
76	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
77	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
78	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
79	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
80	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
81	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
82	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
83	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
84	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
85	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
86	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
87	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
88	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
89	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
90	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
91	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
92	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
93	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
94	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
95	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	52
96	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
97	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
98	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	103	Acast	73
99	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
100	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83

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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