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 10 Oct 2026

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10/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 150

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:45:02

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
3	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	79
4	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
5	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
7	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	264	WideOrbit	48
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	309	Megaphone	42
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	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	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	73
14	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
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	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	23	RSS.com	52
19	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	111	BBC	38
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	438	Megaphone	32
22	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	194	Simplecast	58
23	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
24	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
25	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
26	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
27	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
28	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
29	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
30	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	267	Spreaker	69
31	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
32	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	703	Megaphone	53
33	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	87	Unknown	63
34	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
35	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
36	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
37	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	64
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
40	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	36	Omny Studio	83
41	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
42	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	446	Acast	74
43	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
44	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
45	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
46	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
47	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
48	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	304	WideOrbit	68
49	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
50	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
52	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
53	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	4	Acast	69
54	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	23	ART19	73
55	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
56	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	5	PRX	59
57	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
58	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
59	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
60	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
61	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	62
62	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
63	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
64	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
65	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	28
66	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
67	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
68	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
69	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
70	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
71	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1199	Acast	59
72	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
73	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
74	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
75	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
76	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
77	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
78	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
79	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
80	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53
81	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
82	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	378	Audion	58
83	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
84	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
85	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	230	Acast	43
86	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	130	Acast	43
87	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
88	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
89	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
90	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	68
91	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
92	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	23	Captivate	73
93	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
94	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	413	BBC	28
95	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	164	Omny Studio	69
96	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
97	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
98	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
99	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	71	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	152	Spotify for Podcasters	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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