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 11 Oct 2026

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10/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 154

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:44:44

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
2	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
3	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	79
4	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
8	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	267	WideOrbit	48
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
13	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
21	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
23	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
24	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
25	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
26	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
30	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
31	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
32	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
33	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
34	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
35	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
36	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
37	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
38	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
39	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
40	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
41	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
44	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
45	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
46	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
47	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
48	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
49	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
50	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
51	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
52	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
53	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
54	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
55	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
56	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
57	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
58	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	381	Audion	58
59	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
60	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
63	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
64	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
65	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
66	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
67	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
68	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
69	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
70	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
71	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	232	Acast	43
72	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
73	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
74	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
75	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
76	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
77	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
78	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
79	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
80	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	68
81	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
82	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
84	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
85	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
86	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
87	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
88	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
89	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
90	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
91	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
92	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
93	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	414	BBC	28
94	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
95	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	170	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
97	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
98	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	32
99	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
100	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	24	Captivate	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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