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 29 Sep 2026

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09/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 164

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:43:52

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (3 shows)

2. BBC (2 shows)

3. The Telegraph (2 shows)

4. The Guardian (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
6	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
8	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
9	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
14	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
17	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
18	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
19	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
20	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
21	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
23	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
24	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
26	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
28	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
29	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
30	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
32	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
34	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
35	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
36	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
37	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
40	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
41	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
42	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
44	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
45	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
46	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
47	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
48	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
50	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
51	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
52	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
53	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
54	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
55	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
56	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
57	History Well Told	Prime	Society & Culture	277	Spotify for Podcasters	28
58	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
59	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
60	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
61	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
62	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
63	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
64	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
65	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
66	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	3	PRX	59
67	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
68	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
69	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
70	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
71	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
72	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
73	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
74	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
75	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
76	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
77	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
78	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
79	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
80	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
81	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
82	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
83	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
84	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	59
85	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
86	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
87	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
88	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
89	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
90	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway Details temporarily unavailable	Sky News	Society & Culture	10	Captivate	42
91	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
92	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
94	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
95	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
96	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
97	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
98	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	58
99	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
100	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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