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 03 Sep 2026

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09/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 147

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:44:08

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. The Observer (2 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
3	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
8	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
11	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
14	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
15	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
16	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
21	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
23	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
24	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
25	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
26	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
27	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
28	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
30	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
31	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
32	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
33	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
34	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	58
35	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
36	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
37	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
39	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
42	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
43	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
44	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
45	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
47	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
48	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
49	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
50	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
51	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
52	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
53	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
54	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
55	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	300	WideOrbit	68
56	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
57	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
58	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
59	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
60	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
61	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
62	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
63	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
64	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
65	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
66	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
67	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
68	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
69	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	120	Simplecast	53
70	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
71	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
72	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
73	The Zandland Show	Zandland	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	28
74	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
75	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
76	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
77	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
78	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
79	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
80	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
81	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
82	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
83	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
84	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
85	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
86	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
87	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
88	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
89	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
90	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
91	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
92	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
93	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
94	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
95	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
96	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
97	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
98	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
99	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
100	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42

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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