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 07 Dec 2025

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12/07/2025

Average data

Episodes: 117

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:31:49

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (4 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (23 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Ausha (10 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

5. Megaphone (5 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	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
7	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
8	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
9	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
11	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
12	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
13	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
14	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	796	Audiomeans	74
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
17	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
18	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
19	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
20	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
21	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
22	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
23	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
24	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
25	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
26	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
27	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
28	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
29	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
30	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
31	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
32	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
33	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
34	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
35	101 Visages	Webistan & Les Ateliers Reza	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
36	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
37	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
38	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
39	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
40	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
41	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Audiomeans	84
42	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
43	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
44	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
45	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
46	Les orphelins du 13 novembre	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
47	TIJ (The Inner Journey)	Amel	Education	232	Ausha	43
48	Nos précieux aînés	NADIA AOI-YDI	Society & Culture	21	Ausha	63
49	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
50	Glitch, devenir handi.e	La Clameur Podcast Social Club	Society & Culture	5	podCloud	84
51	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
52	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
53	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
54	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
55	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
56	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
57	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
58	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
59	Là où les voix résonnent : échos de centres de rétention administrative	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Acast	63
60	De Ware Jacob	Dagblad van het Noorden	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	69
61	Valérie Deschamps	Valérie Deschamps	Society & Culture	25	Unknown	89
63	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
64	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
65	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	63	Acast	49
66	La vie sans filtre - Les Podcasts Macif	Les Podcasts Macif	Society & Culture	45	Audiomeans	83
67	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
68	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
69	Zero Signal	David & Jay Green	Society & Culture	32	RSS.com	83
70	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
71	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Society & Culture	34	Audiomeans	59
72	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
73	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
74	Création Documentaire	Radio Grenouille	Society & Culture	27	Transistor	63
75	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
76	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
77	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
78	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
79	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
80	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
81	Mes Sorties Culture	Mes Sorties Culture	Society & Culture	93	Ausha	69
82	250 Dollar - Wie ich einen Menschen freikaufe	NZZ	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	48
83	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	63
84	La voix des métiers	Orientation Vaud	Society & Culture	60	Acast	69
85	Het geluk van Limburg \| De losse eindjes van Frans Pollux	NPO Luister / HUMAN	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	69
86	Podcast du bout du monde	Compagnie Penn Ar Bed	Society & Culture	4	Acast	73
87	Welcome Sister	We Tell Stories & LiquidSky Production	Society & Culture	9	Unknown	69
88	Écouter, agir, le podcast de Citad'elles	Citad'elles	Society & Culture	29	Acast	68
89	NOUS GUÉRIR	Alice Lefilleul et Malika Beloucif	Society & Culture	7	Transistor	59
90	Albert Einstein Genius - Audio Biography	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	3	Spreaker	49
91	Des gens ordinaires	RTBF	Society & Culture	15	Audiomeans	79
92	L'Art Diplomatique	L'art Diplomatique	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	58
93	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
94	Sauver sa peau	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	2	Audiomeans	68
95	Pigments	Tara Mukeku-Cilolo	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	53
96	Wild Wild Web - Geschichten aus dem Internet	ARD	Society & Culture	45	Bayerischer Rundfunk	68
97	Caravaggio - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	1	Spreaker	59
98	Alix Earle - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	41	Spreaker	59
99	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
100	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89

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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