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 Oct 2026

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10/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 155

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:44:22

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	79
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
3	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
5	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
6	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
8	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
9	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	265	WideOrbit	48
10	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
14	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	24	Omny Studio	73
15	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	113	BBC	38
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	439	Megaphone	32
17	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
18	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	194	Simplecast	58
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
22	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
23	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
25	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
26	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
27	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	87	Unknown	63
28	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	23	RSS.com	52
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
30	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	304	WideOrbit	68
31	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
32	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	216	Megaphone	38
33	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
34	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
35	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
36	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
39	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
40	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
41	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	447	Acast	74
42	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	64
43	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
45	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
46	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
47	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
48	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
50	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	380	Audion	58
51	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
52	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	5	PRX	59
53	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
54	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
55	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
56	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
57	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
58	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
59	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
60	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
61	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
62	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	230	Acast	43
63	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
64	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
65	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	62
66	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
67	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
68	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
69	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
70	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
71	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	351	Simplecast	78
72	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
73	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	36	Omny Studio	83
74	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
75	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
76	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
77	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1199	Acast	59
78	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	23	Captivate	73
79	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
80	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
81	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
82	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
83	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
84	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
85	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	414	BBC	28
86	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	298	Audioboom	58
87	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
88	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
89	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
90	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
91	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
92	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
93	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
94	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
95	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
96	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
97	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
98	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
99	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
100	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	52

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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