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 15 Oct 2026

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10/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 160

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:43:44

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (8 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	79
2	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
3	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
4	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
7	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	267	WideOrbit	48
8	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
16	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
17	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
18	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
21	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
22	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
23	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
24	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
26	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
27	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
28	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
30	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
31	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
32	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
34	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
35	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
36	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
37	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
38	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
39	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
40	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
41	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
44	Deep Secrets	NOTHING TO SEE HERE INC	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	69
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
46	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
47	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
48	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
49	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
50	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
51	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
52	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	89	Spreaker	43
53	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
54	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
55	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
56	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
57	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
58	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
59	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
60	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
61	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	24	Captivate	73
62	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
63	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
64	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
65	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
66	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
67	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
68	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
69	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
70	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
71	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
72	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
73	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
74	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
75	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
76	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
77	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
78	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
79	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
80	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
81	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	72	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	232	Acast	43
83	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
84	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	97	WideOrbit	68
85	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
86	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	381	Audion	58
87	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
88	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
89	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
90	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
91	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
92	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	131	Acast	43
93	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
94	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
95	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	14	BBC	63
96	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	52
97	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
98	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
99	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
100	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	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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