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 31 Oct 2026

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10/31/2026

Average data

Episodes: 147

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:45:24

Top 5 authors

1. CBC (2 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

4. The Guardian (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Simplecast (9 shows)

4. BBC (9 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
2	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	58
3	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
4	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
5	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
6	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
8	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
11	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	162	Acast	43
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
14	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
15	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
17	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
18	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
19	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
20	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
21	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
23	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
25	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
26	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
27	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
29	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
30	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
31	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	306	WideOrbit	68
32	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
33	Behind The Story Show	Jelani Gonzalez	Society & Culture	71	Buzzsprout	59
34	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
35	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	69
36	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
37	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
38	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
39	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
40	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
41	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
42	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
43	Silk & Savage	iHeartRadio	Society & Culture	1	Omny Studio	63
44	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
45	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
46	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
47	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
48	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
49	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	5	ART19	58
50	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
51	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
52	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	79
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
56	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
57	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
58	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
59	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
60	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
61	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	16	BBC	63
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
63	WIDE SPIRIT, le podcast qui vous donne la parole sur vos expériences inexpliquées	Emmanuelle Chaumont Rey	Society & Culture	8	Acast	58
64	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
65	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
66	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
67	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
68	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
69	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
70	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	82	Megaphone	62
71	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
72	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
73	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
74	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
75	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
76	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
77	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
78	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
79	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
80	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
81	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
82	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
83	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
84	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
85	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
86	Strangeology	Strangeology Podcast	Society & Culture	100	Spreaker	59
87	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
88	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
89	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
90	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	68
91	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
92	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	63
93	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
94	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
95	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
96	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
97	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	8	Acast	69
98	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	88	Spotify for Podcasters	52
99	Lore Lodge Podcast	Lodge	Society & Culture	183	Spreaker	38
100	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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