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 27 Oct 2026

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10/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 155

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:42:50

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. BBC (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	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
4	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1014	Simplecast	38
7	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
8	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	270	WideOrbit	48
11	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	231	Acast	79
12	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
13	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	44	BBC	58
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	104	BBC	53
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	537	ART19	68
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
20	Silk & Savage	iHeartRadio	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	63
21	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
22	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	197	BBC	38
23	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	53
24	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
25	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	158	Acast	73
26	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	141	N/A	N/A
27	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
28	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	272	Spreaker	69
30	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	29	Acast	83
31	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	25	RSS.com	58
32	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
33	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	13	Acast	84
34	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	72	Acast	83
35	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	831	Megaphone	53
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	106	PRX	64
37	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
38	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
39	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	79
40	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
41	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	207	Simplecast	58
42	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	12	ART19	63
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	234	PRX	79
44	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
45	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
46	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
47	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	63
48	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
49	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
50	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
51	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
52	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
53	Question Everything	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	89	Omny Studio	63
54	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
55	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	20	ART19	63
56	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	68
57	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
58	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	334	WideOrbit	68
59	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	21	BBC	63
60	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	32	ART19	53
61	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	377	Megaphone	43
63	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	4	ART19	58
64	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
65	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	292	Acast	69
66	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	42
67	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
68	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
69	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
70	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
71	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	985	Megaphone	52
72	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
73	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1205	Acast	59
74	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
75	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
76	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
77	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
78	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	554	Audion	58
79	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
80	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
81	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
82	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
83	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
84	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
85	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
86	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
87	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
88	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
89	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
90	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
91	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
92	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
93	Curse of: America's Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	58
94	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
95	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	Society & Culture	4	Captivate	73
96	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
97	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	234	Acast	43
98	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
99	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	12	Spreaker	43
100	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38

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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