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 Nov 2026

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11/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 198

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:46:46

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	162	Megaphone	48
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	947	Simplecast	38
3	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	359	ART19	68
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	316	Megaphone	42
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	29	American Public Media	62
10	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	63
11	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	446	Megaphone	32
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
14	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	59	PRX	74
15	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
16	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	220	Megaphone	38
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
18	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	56	Megaphone	48
19	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
20	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	273	Spreaker	69
21	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	153	N/A	N/A
22	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	27	RSS.com	58
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	133	BBC	38
24	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
25	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	168	Acast	69
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
27	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	215	Acast	79
28	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	107	Acast	79
30	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	72	Acast	83
31	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	48
32	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
33	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	286	Megaphone	43
34	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
35	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	712	Megaphone	53
36	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	16	BBC	63
37	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	129	Simplecast	53
38	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	307	WideOrbit	68
39	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	53
40	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
41	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	95	Libsyn	62
42	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	374	Omny Studio	73
43	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
45	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
46	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1210	Acast	59
47	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	69
48	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
49	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
50	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	194	Ximalaya	53
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
52	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	454	Acast	74
53	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
54	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	176	Spotify for Podcasters	28
55	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
56	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
57	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	73
58	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	91	Omny Studio	63
59	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	82	Megaphone	62
60	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
61	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	156	Spotify for Podcasters	52
62	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	509	RedCircle	43
63	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	100	WideOrbit	68
64	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	391	Audion	58
65	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	24	Buzzsprout	42
66	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
67	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	417	BBC	28
68	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
69	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
70	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
71	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
72	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	357	Simplecast	78
73	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
74	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	60	Audiomeans	73
75	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
76	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	531	Spreaker	43
77	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	239	Acast	43
78	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	32
79	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
80	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
81	My Brother David	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2	Omny Studio	53
82	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	27	ART19	73
83	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	6	ART19	58
84	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	73
85	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	718	Omny Studio	53
86	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	32
87	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
88	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
89	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
90	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
91	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
92	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	63
93	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
94	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
95	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	79
96	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
97	Mallen Baker: Faultlines	Mallen Baker	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	53
98	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
99	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	15	Acast	74
100	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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