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 08 Aug 2026

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08/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 109

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:35:12

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. BFMTV (3 shows)

4. RTL (3 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Audiomeans (18 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

4. Ausha (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
3	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
4	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
6	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
7	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
8	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
9	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
10	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
11	Armand Vaquerin, la dernière tournée	Atelier Frissonne	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	48
12	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	63
13	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
14	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
15	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
16	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
17	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
18	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
19	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
20	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
21	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
22	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
23	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
24	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
25	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
26	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
27	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
28	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
29	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
30	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
31	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
32	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
33	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
34	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
35	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
36	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
37	Le Tour de France avec Sully	We Tell Stories	Society & Culture	23	Unknown	48
38	À la recherche du fromage disparu Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
39	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
40	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
41	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
42	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
43	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
44	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
45	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
46	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
47	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
48	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
49	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
50	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
51	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
52	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
53	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
54	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
55	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
56	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
57	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
58	CAMBIUM, le podcast de l'agroforesterie	Association Française d'Agroforesterie	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
59	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
60	De Kunst van het Verdwijnen	VRT MAX	True Crime	17	Simplecast	73
61	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
62	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
63	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
64	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
65	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
66	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
67	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
68	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
69	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
70	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
71	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
72	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
73	Un bled à soi	Institut du monde arabe	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	59
74	Trump - Photo Op	RTL	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	54
75	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
76	Gueules Cassées	Audio Pictura	Society & Culture	6	Podcastics	84
77	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
78	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
79	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
80	Prisons: hors les mythes	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	69
81	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
82	Histoires d'en haut	Le Dauphiné Libéré	Society & Culture	61	Acast	59
83	Carnet de Voyage	Carnet de Voyage	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	28
85	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
86	Solastalgie	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	16	Audiomeans	73
87	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
88	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
89	1940, Winston devient Churchill	Creation Collective / Binge Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	48
90	The Dustlight Archives	Scott Ryan	Society & Culture	28	Buzzsprout	58
91	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
92	Ma langue maternelle n'est pas la langue de ma mère	Alice MAGDELAINE	Society & Culture	13	Acast	79
93	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
94	En Immersion	Antoine Mazère, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	3	Audiomeans	43
95	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
96	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
97	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
99	Être un homme	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	35	Acast	89
100	InSight Crime Podcast	InSight Crime	Society & Culture	14	Spotify for Podcasters	32

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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