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 20 Oct 2026

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10/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 150

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:42:00

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. TTT Media (2 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Simplecast (9 shows)

3. Megaphone (9 shows)

4. ART19 (8 shows)

5. BBC (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
2	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	58
3	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
4	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
7	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	268	WideOrbit	48
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
13	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
15	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
16	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
17	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
21	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
22	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	121	BBC	38
23	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
24	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
25	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
26	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
27	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
28	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
29	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
30	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
33	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
34	Deep Secrets	NOTHING TO SEE HERE INC	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	69
35	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
36	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
37	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
38	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
39	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
40	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
41	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
42	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
43	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
44	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
45	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
46	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	24	Captivate	73
47	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
48	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
49	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
50	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
51	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
52	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
53	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
54	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
55	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
56	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
57	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	233	Acast	43
58	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	14	BBC	63
59	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
60	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
61	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	171	Spotify for Podcasters	28
62	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
63	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
64	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1203	Acast	59
65	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
66	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
67	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
68	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
69	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
70	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
71	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
72	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
73	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	4	ART19	58
74	Под куполом	Ivan Makridin	Society & Culture	5	Podbean	53
75	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	88	Unknown	63
76	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
77	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
78	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	383	Audion	58
79	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
80	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
81	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
82	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
83	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
84	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
85	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
86	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
87	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	58	Audiomeans	73
88	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
89	Latino USA	My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	710	Omny Studio	53
90	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
91	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
92	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
93	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	11	Libsyn	62
94	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
95	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
96	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
97	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	25	Spotify for Podcasters	22
98	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
99	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	69
100	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	666	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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