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 18 Sep 2026

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09/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 149

Frequency: every 23 days

Duration: 00:45:01

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

2. Audible (2 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. BBC (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	35	BBC	58
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
3	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
5	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
6	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	305	Megaphone	42
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
10	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
13	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
17	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
19	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
20	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	700	Megaphone	53
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
22	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
23	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
24	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
25	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
26	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
27	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
28	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
29	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
30	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
31	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	123	Simplecast	53
32	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
33	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	264	Spreaker	69
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
39	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
40	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
41	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
42	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
43	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
44	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
45	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
46	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
47	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
48	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
49	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
50	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
52	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
53	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
54	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
55	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
56	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
57	History Well Told	Prime	Society & Culture	277	Spotify for Podcasters	28
58	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
59	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
60	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
61	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
62	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
63	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
64	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
65	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
66	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
67	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
68	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
69	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	73
70	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
71	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
72	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
73	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
74	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
75	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
76	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
77	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
78	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
79	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
80	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
81	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
82	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
83	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
84	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
85	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
86	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
87	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
88	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
89	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	21	ART19	73
90	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	73
91	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
92	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
93	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
94	As Irmãs	Chico Felitti	Society & Culture	5	Spreaker	59
95	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
96	Escafandro	Rádio Escafandro	Society & Culture	206	Spotify for Podcasters	38
97	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	102	Acast	73
98	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
99	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	525	Spreaker	43
100	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53

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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