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 05 Nov 2025

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11/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 109

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:36:49

Top 5 authors

1. RTL (5 shows)

2. Louie Media (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. Rádio Novelo (3 shows)

5. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Audiomeans (18 shows)

3. Ausha (15 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. Megaphone (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
5	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
6	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
8	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
10	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
11	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
12	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	798	Audiomeans	74
13	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
14	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
15	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
16	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
17	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
18	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
19	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
20	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
21	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
22	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
23	Entre Deux Vagues	Chloe Leger	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	64
24	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
25	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
26	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
27	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
28	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
29	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
30	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
31	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
34	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
35	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
36	Nos précieux aînés	NADIA AOI-YDI	Society & Culture	21	Ausha	63
37	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
38	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
39	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
40	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
41	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
42	Avestruz Master	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	53
43	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
44	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
45	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
46	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
47	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
48	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
49	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
50	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
51	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
52	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
53	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
54	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
55	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
58	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	63	Acast	49
59	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
60	Elizabeth II	RTL	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	59
61	Les Vrais Souverains	Arnaud Montebourg	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	74
62	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	63
63	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
64	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
65	A quel prix ? \| Tegen welke prijs?	IEFH	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	58
66	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
67	Les femmes qui lisent	Laure Gabus	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
68	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
69	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
70	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
71	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	219	Unknown	43
72	LE DESIGN SUR ÉCOUTE	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	31	Audiomeans	73
73	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
74	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
75	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
76	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
77	Histoires d'en haut	Le Dauphiné Libéré	Society & Culture	61	Acast	59
78	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
79	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
81	RENCONTRES, le podcast du Laboratoire de la Mobilité inclusive	Le Laboratoire de la Mobilité inclusive	Society & Culture	19	Audiomeans	78
82	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
83	Du Pin sur la Planche - à la découverte de la forêt et du bois	Delphine Gardin	Society & Culture	18	Ausha	58
84	XXI	Revue 21	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	79
85	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	48
86	Tempo Quente	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	17	Megaphone	64
87	Métamorphoses urbaines - une enquête sonore des villes à l'âge industriel	Service Patrimoine culturel - Département de l'Isère	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	38
88	L'Actuelle	Radio Larzac	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	53
89	Youth Visions podcast	Youth Visions	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	69
90	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Acast	73
91	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
92	Pour de vrai	Clémentine C	Society & Culture	56	Spotify for Podcasters	48
93	Une vie, une histoire	Par Milim de Myriam Levain et Elisa Azogui-Burlac	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	64
94	Vieille peau	Charlotte Dumartheray	Society & Culture	9	Acast	84
95	Deep Doku	Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg	Society & Culture	129	Unknown	48
96	L'Horizon et au-delà, par GEO	Prisma Media	Society & Culture	16	Audion	58
97	La recherche à l'écoute	IRD	Society & Culture	18	Podcastics	84
98	En immersion à l'école des commissaires de police	ENSP Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	42
99	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
100	Les Empêchés, immersion au pays de l'illettrisme	Prisma Media	Society & Culture	5	Audion	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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