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 Oct 2026

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10/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 133

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:44:32

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. TTT Media (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. BBC (8 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. ART19 (7 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	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
4	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	312	Megaphone	42
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
8	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	269	WideOrbit	48
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
10	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
15	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
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	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	123	BBC	38
22	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
23	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
26	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
27	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
28	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
29	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
30	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
31	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
32	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
33	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
35	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
36	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	13	Acast	84
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
39	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
40	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
41	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
42	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
43	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
46	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
47	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
48	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	89	Unknown	63
49	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
50	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
51	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
52	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	4	ART19	58
53	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
54	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
55	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
56	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
57	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
58	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	63
59	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
60	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
61	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	14	BBC	63
62	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
63	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
64	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
65	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
66	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
67	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
68	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
69	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
70	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
71	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
72	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
73	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1204	Acast	59
74	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	233	Acast	43
75	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
76	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
77	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
78	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
79	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
80	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
81	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
82	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
83	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
84	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
85	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
86	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	8	PRX	69
87	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
88	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
89	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
90	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
91	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
92	Под куполом	Ivan Makridin	Society & Culture	5	Podbean	53
93	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
94	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
95	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
96	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	147	Captivate	38
97	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
98	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
99	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	171	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Lore Lodge Podcast	Lodge	Society & Culture	175	Spreaker	38

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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