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 Oct 2026

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10/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 136

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:43:22

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. Megaphone (11 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. ART19 (8 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
2	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
3	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
5	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
6	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
7	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
8	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	268	WideOrbit	48
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
12	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
15	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
16	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
18	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
21	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
22	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
23	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
24	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	121	BBC	38
25	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
26	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
27	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
28	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
29	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
30	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
31	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
35	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
36	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
37	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
38	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
39	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
40	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
41	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
42	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
43	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
44	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
45	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
46	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
47	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
48	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
49	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
50	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
51	Deep Secrets	NOTHING TO SEE HERE INC	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	69
52	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	24	Captivate	73
53	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
54	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
55	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
57	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
58	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
59	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
60	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
61	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
62	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
63	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
64	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
65	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
66	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	4	ART19	58
67	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
68	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
69	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
70	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
71	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	233	Acast	43
72	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1203	Acast	59
73	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	25	Spotify for Podcasters	22
74	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	58
75	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	383	Audion	58
76	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
77	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
78	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
79	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	58	Audiomeans	73
80	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
81	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
82	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	171	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
84	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
85	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
86	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
87	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
88	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	449	Acast	74
89	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
90	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
91	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
92	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
93	Reflections	Accessible Media Inc.	Society & Culture	155	Simplecast	83
94	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
95	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	90	Acast	89
96	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
97	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan	Society & Culture	375	Blubrry Podcasting	43
98	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
99	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
100	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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