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 Oct 2025

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10/08/2025

Average data

Episodes: 158

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:33:04

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. Paradiso Media (3 shows)

4. RTBF (3 shows)

5. INA (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (12 shows)

4. Ausha (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
6	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
7	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
8	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
9	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
11	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
12	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
13	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
14	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
15	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
18	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
19	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
20	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
21	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
23	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
24	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
25	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
26	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
27	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
28	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
29	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
31	LE DESIGN SUR ÉCOUTE	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	31	Audiomeans	73
32	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
33	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
34	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
35	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
36	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
37	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
38	Les mots sauvages	Anne-Sophie Gouyen	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	53
39	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
40	Différences	Audrey Styczen	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	69
41	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
42	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
43	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
44	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
45	Demi-Sel // Le podcast qui révèle la Bretagne	Région Bretagne	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	79
46	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
47	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
48	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
50	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
51	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
52	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
53	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
54	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
55	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
56	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
57	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
58	Les Grands Entretiens d'Europe 1	Europe 1	Society & Culture	86	Audiomeans	43
60	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
61	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
62	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
63	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
64	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
65	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
66	Sauver sa peau	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	2	Audiomeans	68
67	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
68	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
69	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
70	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
71	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Acast	84
72	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	17	Ausha	79
73	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
75	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
76	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
77	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
78	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
79	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
80	Čestmír Strakatý	Čestmír Strakatý	Society & Culture	448	Spotify for Podcasters	38
81	F - Chroniques d'un féminisme ordinaire Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
82	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
83	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
84	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
85	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
86	وثائقيات هادئة	Asharq Podcasts	Society & Culture	24	Omny Studio	83
87	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
88	X Docs Ελληνικά	X Dox	Society & Culture	15	Spotify for Podcasters	63
89	Café Brioche	L&R Podcast	Society & Culture	42	Acast	74
90	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
91	La révolution, et après ? Un podcast Frictions	Frictions	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	53
92	Meloni: un marqués en la Gomera	Subterfuge Radio	Society & Culture	12	Acast	43
93	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
94	Les Empêchés, immersion au pays de l'illettrisme	Prisma Media	Society & Culture	5	Audion	53
95	Bleue comme Mars	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	74
96	Une histoire de nos retraites	Agirc-Arrco	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	38
97	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
98	Homo swipiens	Homo swipiens	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	53
99	Magtfuld	RADIO IIII	Society & Culture	74	Omny Studio	48
100	10 Mujeres	Wondery \| Dudas Media	Society & Culture	11	ART19	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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