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 09 Oct 2026

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10/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 162

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:45:47

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. The Guardian (2 shows)

4. RTL (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
2	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	79
3	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
9	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	265	WideOrbit	48
10	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
18	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	24	Omny Studio	73
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	439	Megaphone	32
20	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
21	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	194	Simplecast	58
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	216	Megaphone	38
23	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
24	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	113	BBC	38
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
27	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	23	RSS.com	52
28	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
29	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
32	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
33	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	87	Unknown	63
34	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
35	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
36	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
37	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
38	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
39	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
40	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	64
41	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
45	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
46	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	5	PRX	59
47	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
48	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
49	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
50	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	447	Acast	74
51	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	304	WideOrbit	68
52	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
53	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
54	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
55	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
57	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
58	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
59	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
60	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
61	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	36	Omny Studio	83
62	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53
63	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
64	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
65	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
66	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	165	Omny Studio	69
67	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
68	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
69	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
70	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
71	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
72	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
73	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
74	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
75	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
76	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	62
77	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
78	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
79	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
80	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
81	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
82	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
83	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
84	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
85	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	380	Audion	58
86	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
87	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1199	Acast	59
88	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	230	Acast	43
89	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
90	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
91	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
92	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
93	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	28
94	Better Human Project	Cole DaSilva	Society & Culture	686	Libsyn	53
95	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	99	Omny Studio	89
96	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	68
97	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	658	Acast	69
98	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
99	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	351	Simplecast	78
100	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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