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 07 Oct 2026

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10/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 147

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:45:10

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. BBC (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	941	Simplecast	38
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	309	Megaphone	42
6	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	264	WideOrbit	48
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
12	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
13	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	79
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
16	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	438	Megaphone	32
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
21	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
22	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
23	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	194	Simplecast	58
24	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
25	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	111	BBC	38
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	267	Spreaker	69
28	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
29	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	703	Megaphone	53
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
31	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
32	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
33	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	64
34	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	87	Unknown	63
35	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
36	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	23	ART19	73
37	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	446	Acast	74
38	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
39	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	4	Acast	69
40	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
41	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
42	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
43	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
44	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
45	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	73
46	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	5	PRX	59
47	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	23	RSS.com	52
48	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
49	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	304	WideOrbit	68
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
52	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
53	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
54	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
55	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	23	Captivate	73
56	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
57	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
58	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
59	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
60	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
61	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
62	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
63	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
64	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
65	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
66	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
67	History Well Told	Pri-media	Society & Culture	267	Spotify for Podcasters	28
68	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
69	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
70	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
71	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
72	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	378	Audion	58
73	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
74	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
75	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
76	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
77	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
79	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
82	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
83	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1199	Acast	59
84	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
85	Howard Stern - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	113	Megaphone	63
86	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
87	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	62
88	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	36	Omny Studio	83
89	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53
90	Perce les nuages	Sylvia Mantha	Society & Culture	43	Spotify for Podcasters	43
91	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	89	Acast	89
93	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
94	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
95	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
96	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
97	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
98	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
99	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
100	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	351	Simplecast	78

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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