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 Oct 2026

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10/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 143

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:45:09

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. The Guardian (2 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. BBC (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (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	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
3	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
4	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
5	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
6	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
7	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	271	WideOrbit	48
10	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
13	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
14	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
20	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
21	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
22	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
23	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
24	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
25	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
26	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	69
27	Silk & Savage	iHeartRadio	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	63
28	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
29	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
30	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
31	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
32	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
33	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
35	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
36	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
37	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
38	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	13	Acast	84
39	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
41	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
42	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
43	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	79
44	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
45	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
47	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
48	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
49	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
50	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
51	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
52	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
53	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	6	PRX	59
54	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
55	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
56	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
57	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
58	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
59	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
60	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
61	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
62	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
63	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	63
64	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
65	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
66	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
67	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
68	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
69	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	306	WideOrbit	68
70	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
71	Les enfants nés du viol	Maude Petel-Légaré	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	79
72	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
73	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
74	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
75	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
76	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
77	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
78	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
79	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
80	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
81	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
82	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	68
83	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
84	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
85	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	235	Acast	43
86	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
87	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
88	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
89	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
90	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
91	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
92	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
93	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
94	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
95	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
96	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
97	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
98	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
99	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
100	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59

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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