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 21 Sep 2026

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09/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 162

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:45:03

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. BBC (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	156	Acast	43
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
6	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	304	Megaphone	42
8	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	32
12	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
17	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	190	Simplecast	58
18	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	64	Acast	83
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
22	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
25	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	699	Megaphone	53
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
27	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
28	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
30	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
31	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	83	Unknown	63
32	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	301	WideOrbit	68
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
34	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	73
35	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
36	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
38	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
39	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
40	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
41	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
42	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
43	History Well Told	Prime	Society & Culture	277	RedCircle	53
44	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
45	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
49	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
50	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	123	Simplecast	53
51	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
52	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
53	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
54	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	73
55	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
56	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1190	Acast	59
57	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
58	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
59	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
60	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
61	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	149	Spotify for Podcasters	52
62	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
63	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
64	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	21	ART19	73
65	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
66	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
67	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
68	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
69	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	371	Audion	58
70	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
71	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	348	Simplecast	78
72	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
73	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
74	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	70	Spreaker	43
75	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
76	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
77	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
78	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
79	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	224	Acast	43
80	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	48
81	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	57	Spreaker	68
82	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
83	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
84	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
85	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
86	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
87	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	33	Omny Studio	83
88	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
89	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	400	Buzzsprout	83
90	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
91	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
92	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
93	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	88	Libsyn	62
94	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
95	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	523	Spreaker	43
96	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
97	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
98	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	162	Spotify for Podcasters	28
99	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
100	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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