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 12 Sep 2026

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09/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 140

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:42:41

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. Jack Laurence (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
3	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
13	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
14	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
15	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
21	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
23	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
24	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
26	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
27	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
28	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
29	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
30	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
31	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
33	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
34	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
35	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
37	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
38	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
39	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
40	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
41	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	300	WideOrbit	68
42	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
43	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
44	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
45	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
46	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
47	Gary Vaynerchuk - Biography Flash Details temporarily unavailable	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	1	Spreaker	69
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
49	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
50	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
51	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
52	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
53	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
54	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
55	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
58	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
59	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
60	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
61	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
62	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
63	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
64	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
65	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
66	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
67	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
68	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
69	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
70	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
71	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
72	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
73	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
74	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
75	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
76	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
77	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
78	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
79	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
80	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
81	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	85	Acast	89
82	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
83	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
84	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
85	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
86	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
87	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
88	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
89	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
90	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
91	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
92	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
93	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
94	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
95	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
96	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
97	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
98	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
99	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
100	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28

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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