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 22 Oct 2026

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10/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 129

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:43:54

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. Audible (2 shows)

3. The Guardian (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. ART19 (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	58
2	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
3	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
5	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
9	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	269	WideOrbit	48
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
12	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
16	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
17	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
19	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
20	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
21	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
22	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	122	BBC	38
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
25	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
26	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
27	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
28	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
29	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
30	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
31	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
32	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
33	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
35	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
37	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	84
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
41	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
42	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
43	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
44	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
45	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
46	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
47	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
48	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
49	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
50	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
51	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
52	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
53	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	14	BBC	63
54	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
55	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
56	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
57	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
58	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
59	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
60	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
61	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	4	ART19	58
62	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
63	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
64	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
65	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	89	Unknown	63
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
67	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
68	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
69	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
70	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
71	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
72	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
73	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	233	Acast	43
74	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
75	Do Geese See God	Austin Lee	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	68
76	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	69
77	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	24	Captivate	73
78	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
79	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
80	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
81	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
82	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
83	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
84	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
85	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
86	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1203	Acast	59
87	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
88	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
89	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
90	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
91	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
92	Our Common Nature	WNYC	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
93	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	154	Spotify for Podcasters	52
94	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
95	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
96	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
97	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
98	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
99	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	131	Acast	43
100	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	171	Spotify for Podcasters	28

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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