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 13 Sep 2026

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09/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 150

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:42:52

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
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 Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
11	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
15	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
16	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
17	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
19	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
22	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
23	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
24	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
25	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
28	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
31	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
32	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
33	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
34	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
35	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	9	Acast	43
36	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	300	WideOrbit	68
37	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
38	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
39	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
40	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
41	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
42	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
44	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
45	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
47	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
48	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
49	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
52	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
53	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
55	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
56	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
57	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
58	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
59	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
60	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
61	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
62	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
63	Gary Vaynerchuk - Biography Flash Details temporarily unavailable	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	1	Spreaker	69
64	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
66	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
67	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
68	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
69	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
70	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
71	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
72	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
73	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
74	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
75	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
76	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
77	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
78	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
79	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
80	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
81	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	76	Buzzsprout	62
82	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
83	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
84	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
85	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
86	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
87	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
88	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
89	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	85	Acast	89
90	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
91	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
92	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
93	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
94	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
95	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
96	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
97	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
98	The Rewriting Humanity	Jim Walsh	Society & Culture	20	Podbean	48
99	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
100	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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