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 Oct 2026

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10/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 137

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:44:34

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 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	42	BBC	58
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1010	Simplecast	38
4	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
5	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	103	BBC	53
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
8	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
12	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
13	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
14	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
17	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	42
18	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
19	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
21	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
22	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
23	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
24	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
26	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	204	Simplecast	58
27	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
28	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	824	Megaphone	53
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	173	BBC	38
31	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
33	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
34	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
35	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
36	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
37	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
38	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
39	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
40	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
41	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
43	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
44	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
45	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
46	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	4	PRX	59
47	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
48	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
50	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
52	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
53	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
54	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
55	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
56	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
57	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
58	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
59	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
60	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
61	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
62	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
63	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	22	Captivate	73
64	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
65	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
66	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
67	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	68
68	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
69	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
70	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
71	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	16	Transistor	73
72	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
73	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
74	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
75	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
76	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	303	WideOrbit	68
77	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
78	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
79	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
80	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
81	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
82	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
83	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
84	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
85	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
86	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
87	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
88	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
89	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
90	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
91	Perce les nuages	Sylvia Mantha	Society & Culture	43	Spotify for Podcasters	43
92	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	52
93	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
94	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	165	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
96	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
97	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
98	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
99	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
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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