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 24 Sep 2026

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09/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 152

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:45:12

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. BBC (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	35	BBC	58
3	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
4	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	305	Megaphone	42
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
10	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
11	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
12	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
13	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
16	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
21	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
22	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
23	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
24	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
25	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	700	Megaphone	53
26	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	264	Spreaker	69
28	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
29	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
31	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
32	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
33	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	123	Simplecast	53
34	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
35	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
36	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
37	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
40	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
42	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	48
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
45	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
46	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
47	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
49	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
50	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	21	ART19	73
51	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
52	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
55	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	32	Simplecast	49
56	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
57	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
58	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
59	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
60	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
61	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
62	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
63	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
64	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
65	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
66	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	73
67	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
68	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
69	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
70	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
71	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
72	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
73	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
74	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
75	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
76	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
77	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
78	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
79	Salt of the Earth	Grigg Media	Society & Culture	126	Buzzsprout	58
80	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
81	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
82	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
83	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
84	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
85	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
86	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
87	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
88	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
89	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
90	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
91	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
92	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
93	History Well Told	Prime	Society & Culture	277	Spotify for Podcasters	28
94	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
96	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
97	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
98	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
99	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
100	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	525	Spreaker	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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