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 25 Sep 2026

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09/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 159

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:44:41

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (4 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
7	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	305	Megaphone	42
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
12	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
13	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
17	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
18	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
20	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
21	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
23	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
24	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
25	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
27	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	700	Megaphone	53
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	264	Spreaker	69
29	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
31	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
32	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
33	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
34	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
35	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
36	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
37	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
38	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	123	Simplecast	53
40	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	21	ART19	73
41	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
42	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
45	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
46	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
47	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
48	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
49	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	48
50	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
51	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
52	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
54	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
55	Salt of the Earth	Grigg Media	Society & Culture	126	Buzzsprout	58
56	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
57	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
58	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
59	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
60	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
61	My Brother David	iHeartMedia	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	59
62	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	32	Simplecast	49
63	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
64	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
65	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
66	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	10	Acast	53
67	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
68	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
69	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
70	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
71	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
72	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
73	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
74	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
75	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
76	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
77	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
78	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	494	RedCircle	43
79	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
80	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
81	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
82	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
83	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
84	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	94	WideOrbit	68
85	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
86	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
87	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
88	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
89	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	68
90	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
91	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
92	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
93	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
94	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
95	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
96	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
97	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	73
98	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
99	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
100	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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