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 Oct 2026

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10/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 168

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:44:07

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	79
2	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	159	Acast	43
5	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
6	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	265	WideOrbit	48
7	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
12	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
13	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
14	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	113	BBC	38
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	439	Megaphone	32
17	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	24	Omny Studio	73
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
20	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
21	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
22	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	194	Simplecast	58
23	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
24	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	23	RSS.com	52
25	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
26	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	87	Unknown	63
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
28	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
29	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
30	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
31	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
32	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	216	Megaphone	38
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
35	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	304	WideOrbit	68
36	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
37	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
39	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
40	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	5	PRX	59
41	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
42	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
43	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	64
44	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
45	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
46	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
47	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
48	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	447	Acast	74
49	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
50	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
51	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
52	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
53	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	36	Omny Studio	83
54	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
55	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
56	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
57	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
58	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
59	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
60	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
61	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
62	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
63	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	380	Audion	58
64	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
65	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
66	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	23	Captivate	73
67	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
68	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	230	Acast	43
69	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
70	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
71	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
72	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
73	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
74	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
75	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
76	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
77	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
78	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	79	Megaphone	62
79	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
80	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
81	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
82	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
83	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	96	WideOrbit	68
84	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
85	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
86	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
87	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
88	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	414	BBC	28
89	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
90	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	168	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
92	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	63
93	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
94	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
95	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
96	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1199	Acast	59
97	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
98	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
99	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	351	Simplecast	78
100	Deep Secrets	NOTHING TO SEE HERE INC	Society & Culture	5	RedCircle	69

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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