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 16 Sep 2026

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09/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 135

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:44:26

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. BBC (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
5	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	259	WideOrbit	48
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
8	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
14	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
16	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	58
17	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
18	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	64	Acast	83
22	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
23	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
24	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
27	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
28	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
29	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
30	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	697	Megaphone	53
31	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
32	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
33	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
34	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
35	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
36	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
37	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
39	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	121	Simplecast	53
40	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
41	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
42	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
43	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	43
44	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	Escafandro	Rádio Escafandro	Society & Culture	205	Spotify for Podcasters	38
47	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
48	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
50	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
51	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	300	WideOrbit	68
52	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
53	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
54	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
55	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
57	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
58	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
59	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
60	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
61	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
62	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
63	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
64	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	366	Audion	58
65	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
66	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	200	Megaphone	53
67	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	149	Spotify for Podcasters	52
68	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
69	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
70	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
71	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
72	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
73	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	56	Spreaker	68
74	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
75	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
76	Better Human Project	Cole DaSilva	Society & Culture	680	Libsyn	53
77	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
78	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
79	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	223	Acast	43
80	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
81	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
82	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
83	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
84	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
85	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
86	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
87	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
88	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
89	Histoires lesbiennes	Marine GILIS	Society & Culture	11	Acast	79
90	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
91	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
92	پادکست داستانی ترپند /TarPand	Tarpand	Society & Culture	57	Acast	79
93	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
94	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
95	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
96	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
97	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
98	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
99	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
100	Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Erin Elizabeth Hynes of Pina Travels	Society & Culture	158	Audioboom	47

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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