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 23 Sep 2026

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09/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 168

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:44:22

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. Simplecast (11 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	40	BBC	58
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1008	Simplecast	38
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
7	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
8	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
12	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	203	Simplecast	58
13	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
15	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
18	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
19	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
21	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	264	Spreaker	69
22	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
23	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
24	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	700	Megaphone	53
25	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
26	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
27	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
28	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
30	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
31	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
32	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
33	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
35	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
36	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
37	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
39	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
41	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
43	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
44	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
45	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	32	Simplecast	49
46	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
47	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
48	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
49	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	48
50	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64
51	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
52	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
53	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	73
54	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
55	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
56	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
57	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
58	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	21	ART19	73
59	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
60	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
61	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
64	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
65	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
66	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
67	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
68	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
71	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
72	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
73	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	541	Audion	58
74	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
75	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
76	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
77	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
78	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
79	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
80	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
81	History Well Told	Prime	Society & Culture	277	Spotify for Podcasters	28
82	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
83	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
84	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
85	If This Hall Could Talk	WQXR, Carnegie Hall	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	69
86	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
88	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
89	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
90	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	32
91	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
92	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
93	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
94	Salt of the Earth	Grigg Media	Society & Culture	126	Buzzsprout	58
95	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	59
96	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
97	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
98	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
99	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
100	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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