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 Oct 2026

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10/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 133

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:44:35

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. TTT Media (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (11 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 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	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
5	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	312	Megaphone	42
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
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	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	442	Megaphone	32
19	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
20	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
21	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
22	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
23	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
24	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	124	BBC	38
25	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
26	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
27	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
28	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
29	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	13	Acast	84
30	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
31	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
32	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
33	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
34	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
35	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
36	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
38	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
39	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
44	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
45	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
46	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	89	Unknown	63
47	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
48	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
49	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
50	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
51	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
53	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	4	ART19	58
54	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
55	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
56	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
57	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
58	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
59	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
60	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
61	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
62	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	87	Spotify for Podcasters	52
63	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
64	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
65	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
66	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
67	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
68	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	63
69	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
70	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
71	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
72	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
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	234	Acast	43
75	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
76	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
77	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
78	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	11	Libsyn	62
79	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
80	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
81	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	14	BBC	63
82	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
83	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
84	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
85	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
86	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
87	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
88	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
89	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
90	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
91	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
92	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
93	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
94	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
95	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
96	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	25	Spotify for Podcasters	22
97	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	68
98	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
99	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
100	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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