Apple Podcast Rankings - France - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in France

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in France. 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 02 Dec 2025

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12/02/2025

Average data

Episodes: 129

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:38:06

Top 5 authors

1. RTL (4 shows)

2. Louie Media (4 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Audiomeans (18 shows)

3. Ausha (10 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
5	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
6	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
7	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
8	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
9	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
11	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
12	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
15	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
20	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
21	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
22	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
23	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
24	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
25	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
26	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
27	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
28	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
29	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	59
30	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
31	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
32	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
33	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
34	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
35	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
36	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
37	DES RACINES & DES AILES	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	35	Audiomeans	63
38	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
39	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
40	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
41	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
42	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
43	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
44	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
45	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
46	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
47	Elizabeth II	RTL	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	59
48	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
49	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
50	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
51	Armand Vaquerin, la dernière tournée	Atelier Frissonne	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	48
52	Mosaïque	Akadem, Institut français d'Israël	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	38
53	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
54	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
55	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
56	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
57	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
58	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
59	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
60	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
62	Nos chaînons invisibles	Elson	Society & Culture	15	Podcastics	74
63	LE DESIGN SUR ÉCOUTE	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	31	Audiomeans	73
64	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
65	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Acast	84
66	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
67	PRÉSENT RECOMPOSÉ	ADD ASSOCIES	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	74
68	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
69	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
70	De Ware Jacob	Dagblad van het Noorden	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	69
71	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
72	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
73	Glitch, devenir handi.e	La Clameur Podcast Social Club	Society & Culture	5	podCloud	84
74	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
75	How to Grab Free Audiobook in Fiction, Contemporary	Full Audiobook	Society & Culture	2000	Unknown	53
76	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
77	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
78	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
79	Mesdames	Mélanie Legendre	Society & Culture	66	Ausha	73
81	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
82	E poi il silenzio - Il disastro di Rigopiano	Pablo Trincia – Sky Original by Chora Media	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	48
83	Dr Bitcoin - The Man Who Wasn't Satoshi Nakamoto	Tulip Publishing	Society & Culture	57	Acast	79
84	Bref, l’effondrement.	Cyril Hique	Society & Culture	45	Ausha	43
85	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
86	Women of the Seas	Le podcast des aventurières de la Mer	Society & Culture	20	Acast	74
87	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
88	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
89	ROC Taiwan : la singularité d'une île	Muriel Couton / Virginie Jortay	Society & Culture	10	Acast	79
90	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
91	Réparer les violences	La Maison des femmes	Society & Culture	7	Acast	84
92	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
93	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
94	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
95	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
96	AUDIENS	UbiDEM	Society & Culture	19	podCloud	69
97	Les orphelins du 13 novembre	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
98	Un bled à soi	Institut du monde arabe	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	59
99	Jeff Bezos - Living Bio	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	88	Spreaker	64
100	A Bauges que veux tu ?	Guillaume Houlier	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

The podcast landscape in France 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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