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 Oct 2026

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10/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 150

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:43:19

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. Audible (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. TTT Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (11 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 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	1014	Simplecast	38
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
6	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
7	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	270	WideOrbit	48
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	536	ART19	68
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
13	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	44	BBC	58
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	231	Acast	79
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	104	BBC	53
16	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
20	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
21	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
22	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
23	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	157	Acast	73
24	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	196	BBC	38
25	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
26	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
27	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
28	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	207	Simplecast	58
29	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	72	Acast	83
30	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
31	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	106	PRX	64
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	272	Spreaker	69
33	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
34	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	68
35	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	4	ART19	58
36	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
37	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
38	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
39	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
40	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
41	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
42	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
43	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	831	Megaphone	53
44	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	13	Acast	84
45	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
46	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
47	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
48	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
49	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	376	Megaphone	43
50	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
51	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
52	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
53	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	234	PRX	79
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
56	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	20	ART19	63
57	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
58	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	63
59	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
60	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
61	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
62	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	334	WideOrbit	68
63	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
64	Question Everything	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	89	Omny Studio	63
65	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
66	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
67	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
68	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1205	Acast	59
69	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
70	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	234	Acast	43
71	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	87	Spotify for Podcasters	52
72	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	12	ART19	63
73	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
74	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
75	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
76	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
77	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
78	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
79	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	32	ART19	53
80	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
81	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	292	Acast	69
82	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	42
83	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
84	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
85	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
86	人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材	厭世姬＆邊角料	Society & Culture	216	Firstory	43
87	Les enfants nés du viol	Maude Petel-Légaré	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	79
88	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
89	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
90	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
91	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
92	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
93	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
94	The Powers of Darkness Podcast	Or Whatever Movies	Society & Culture	12	Libsyn	62
95	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	25	Spotify for Podcasters	22
96	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan	Society & Culture	375	Blubrry Podcasting	43
97	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
98	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
99	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	465	Acast	74
100	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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