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 26 Oct 2026

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10/26/2026

Average data

Episodes: 155

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:43:21

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. TTT Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. BBC (9 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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
6	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
7	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	270	WideOrbit	48
13	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
14	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
16	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
17	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
21	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
22	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	126	BBC	38
24	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
25	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	12	Acast	53
26	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
27	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
28	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
29	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
30	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
31	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
32	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	13	Acast	84
33	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
34	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
35	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
36	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
37	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
38	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
40	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
41	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
42	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
44	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	6	ART19	63
45	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
46	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	68
49	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	4	ART19	58
50	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
51	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
52	Question Everything	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	89	Omny Studio	63
53	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
54	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
55	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	63
56	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
57	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
58	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
59	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
60	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
61	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
62	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
63	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1205	Acast	59
64	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	79
65	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
66	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
67	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
68	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
69	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
70	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
71	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
72	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	234	Acast	43
73	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
74	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
75	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
76	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
77	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
78	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
79	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
80	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
81	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	6	ART19	63
82	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
83	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	Society & Culture	4	Captivate	73
84	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
85	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
86	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
87	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
88	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
89	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
90	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
91	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
92	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
93	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	409	Buzzsprout	83
94	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
95	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
96	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	87	Spotify for Podcasters	52
97	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
98	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	68
99	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
100	Curse of: America's Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

The podcast landscape in Canada is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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