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 30 Sep 2026

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09/30/2026

Average data

Episodes: 175

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:43:12

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Omny Studio (11 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Megaphone (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	42	BBC	58
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1009	Simplecast	38
4	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
5	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
6	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	157	Acast	43
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
8	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
9	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
12	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
13	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
14	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
17	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
18	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
19	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
20	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	204	Simplecast	58
21	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
23	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
24	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
25	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
26	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
28	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
29	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
30	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
31	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
32	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
33	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
35	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
36	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	456	Acast	74
37	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
38	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
39	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
40	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
41	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	11	Acast	53
42	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
44	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
45	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
46	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
47	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
48	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
49	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
50	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
51	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
52	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
54	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
55	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
56	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
57	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
58	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
59	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
60	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
61	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	4	PRX	59
62	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
63	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
65	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
66	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
67	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
68	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
69	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
70	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	67	Blubrry	49
71	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
72	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
73	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
74	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
75	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
76	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
77	Revisiting The Gay Life	David Boyer	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
78	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
79	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
80	Sorry About The Kid	CBC	Society & Culture	6	Triton Digital	53
81	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
82	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
83	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
84	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
85	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
86	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
87	History Well Told	Prime	Society & Culture	277	Spotify for Podcasters	28
88	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
89	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
90	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
91	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
92	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	542	Audion	58
93	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
94	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
95	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
96	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
97	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
98	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
99	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
100	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway Details temporarily unavailable	Sky News	Society & Culture	10	Captivate	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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