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 03 Feb 2026

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02/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 149

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:33:04

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. Nouvelles Écoutes (3 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

5. Inception Point Ai (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Audiomeans (19 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

4. Ausha (10 shows)

5. Megaphone (6 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	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
6	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
7	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
8	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
11	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
12	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
15	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
16	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
17	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
18	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
19	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
21	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
22	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
23	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
24	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
25	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
26	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
27	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
28	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
29	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
30	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
31	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
32	Leurs vestiaires	Coraline Chancibot	Business	17	Acast	79
33	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
34	DS Automobiles	majelan X	Society & Culture	1	Audiomeans	84
35	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
36	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
37	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
38	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Acast	84
39	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
40	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
41	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
42	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
43	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
44	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
45	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
46	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
47	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
48	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
49	Nano, ce qu'il reste de nous	Marion Passault	Society & Culture	11	Ausha	63
50	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
51	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
52	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
53	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
54	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
55	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
56	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
57	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
58	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
59	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
60	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
61	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
62	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
63	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
64	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	59
65	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
66	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
67	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
68	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
69	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
71	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
72	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
73	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
74	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
75	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
76	Canal Café Brasil	Luciano Pires & Café Brasil Editorial Ltda	Society & Culture	2481	Omny Studio	43
77	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
78	SEXTORTION	Lars van Eijden & Rick Uilenbroek / Audiohuis	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	69
79	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
80	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
81	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
82	Carnet de Voyage	Carnet de Voyage	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	De Kunst van het Verdwijnen	VRT MAX	True Crime	17	Simplecast	73
84	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
85	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
86	あいだのハナシ - 社会課題をビジネスで解決するドキュメンタリー	SHIRO × Chronicle	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	63
87	Là où les voix résonnent : échos de centres de rétention administrative	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Acast	63
88	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
89	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
90	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
91	Demain Marseille \| Et si l'humour nous aidait à imaginer le futur?	Demain Marseille \| Nouveaux regards sur le futur du territoire	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	63
92	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
93	Backstage, derrière le micro	Benoit Thièbe	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	78
94	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
95	ReidMyMindRadio	T.Reid	Society & Culture	208	Libsyn	43
96	THE DAISY AGE PODCAST	The Daisy Age Podcast	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	43
97	Fédération Nationale des Producteurs de Lait	FNPL	Society & Culture	55	Spotify for Podcasters	28
98	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - animé par Marina Orsini Details temporarily unavailable	Des histoires qui résonnent : le Balado des proches aidants - Animé par Marina Orsini	Society & Culture	45	Audioboom	68
99	Oltre ogni aspettativa // Rai Radio 3 (Tre Soldi)	Marco Rip	Society & Culture	3	Spreaker	49
100	Dalai Lama - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	47	Spreaker	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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