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 26 days

Duration: 00:43:00

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. The Guardian (2 shows)

4. Jack Laurence (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 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	945	Simplecast	38
3	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	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	314	Megaphone	42
10	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
13	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
14	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
15	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
17	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
21	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
23	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
24	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
26	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
27	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	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	145	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	105	Acast	79
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
33	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	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	26	RSS.com	58
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
37	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
38	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
39	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
40	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
41	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	306	WideOrbit	68
42	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
43	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
44	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	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	285	Megaphone	43
49	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	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	48	Omny Studio	53
54	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	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	214	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 Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
61	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
62	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
63	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
64	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
65	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
66	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
67	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
68	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
69	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
70	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
71	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
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	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
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	34	Megaphone	48
80	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
81	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	92	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	32	Podbean	41
86	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	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	236	Acast	43
90	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
91	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
92	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
93	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
94	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
95	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
96	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
97	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
98	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
99	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
100	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	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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