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 06 Oct 2026

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10/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 130

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:44:38

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. Simplecast (8 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
2	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
3	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	158	Acast	43
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
8	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
9	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	263	WideOrbit	48
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
15	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
17	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
18	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
21	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
23	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
24	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
26	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
27	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
28	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	702	Megaphone	53
29	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	106	BBC	38
30	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
31	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
32	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
33	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
35	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
36	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
37	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	23	ART19	73
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
39	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
40	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
41	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
42	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	73
43	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
44	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	4	PRX	59
45	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
46	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	445	Acast	74
47	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
48	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
50	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	303	WideOrbit	68
51	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
52	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
53	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
54	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
56	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
58	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	4	Acast	69
59	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
60	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	376	Audion	58
61	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
62	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
63	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
64	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	89	Acast	89
65	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
66	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	22	Captivate	73
67	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
69	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
70	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
71	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
72	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
73	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
74	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
75	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
76	Howard Stern - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	113	Megaphone	63
77	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
78	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
79	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
80	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	78	Megaphone	62
81	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	68
82	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
83	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
84	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
85	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	43
86	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
87	Perce les nuages	Sylvia Mantha	Society & Culture	43	Spotify for Podcasters	43
88	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
89	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
90	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
91	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
92	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
93	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
94	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
95	History Well Told	Pri-media	Society & Culture	267	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
97	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	706	Omny Studio	53
98	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	55	Audiomeans	73
99	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	125	Buzzsprout	53
100	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79

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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