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 19 Sep 2026

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09/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 153

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:45:10

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

2. CBC (2 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Simplecast (8 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	305	Megaphone	42
6	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
7	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
12	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
18	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
20	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
21	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
22	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
23	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	700	Megaphone	53
24	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
25	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	264	Spreaker	69
27	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
28	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
29	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
30	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
31	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
32	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	123	Simplecast	53
33	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
34	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
35	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
36	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
37	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
38	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
40	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
41	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
44	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
45	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
46	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
47	History Well Told	Prime	Society & Culture	277	Spotify for Podcasters	28
48	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
49	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
50	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
51	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
52	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
53	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
54	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
55	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
56	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
57	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	73
58	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
59	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
60	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
61	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
63	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
64	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
65	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
66	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
67	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
68	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
69	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
70	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
71	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	73
72	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
73	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
74	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
75	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
76	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
77	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
78	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
79	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
80	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
81	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
82	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
84	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
85	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
86	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
87	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
88	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
89	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
90	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
91	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
92	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
93	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	102	Acast	73
94	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
95	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
96	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
97	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	21	ART19	73
98	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
99	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
100	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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