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 11 Aug 2025

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08/11/2025

Average data

Episodes: 106

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:32:09

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. Paradiso Media (3 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (25 shows)

2. Acast (22 shows)

3. Ausha (10 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. BBC (5 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	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
3	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
6	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
7	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
8	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
11	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
12	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
13	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
14	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
15	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
16	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
17	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Society & Culture	34	Audiomeans	59
18	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
19	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
22	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
23	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
24	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
25	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
26	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
27	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
28	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
29	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
31	Sillon Bulle	Roland Harper	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	33
32	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
33	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
34	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
35	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
36	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
37	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
38	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
39	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
40	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
41	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
42	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
43	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
44	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
45	Une place à table	Making Waves	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	59
46	Bleue comme Mars	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	74
47	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
48	LE DESIGN SUR ÉCOUTE	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	31	Audiomeans	73
49	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74
50	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
51	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
52	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
53	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
54	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
55	Gisors et le trésor des Templiers	Jocelyne Giani	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	43
56	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
57	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
58	Tomber la robe	Tomber la robe	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	38
59	Mosaïque	Akadem, Institut français d'Israël	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	38
60	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
61	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
62	Meurtres et Mystères	Hosnelle	Society & Culture	121	Spotify for Podcasters	63
63	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
64	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
65	En immersion à l'école des commissaires de police	ENSP Podcasts	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	48
66	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	83
67	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
68	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
69	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
70	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
71	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
73	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
74	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
75	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
76	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
77	La Mallette verte	Perrine Sokal	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	74
78	Immersion Podcast \| Documentaires Français Intéressants VF \| Docs Reportages & Emissions 2024	Immersion DOCS Podcast	Society & Culture	2	Acast	48
79	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
80	Historically Black	APM Reports & The Washington Post	Society & Culture	9	American Public Media	49
81	LE TRADUCTEUR BARODA	Zou Diallo (Le Traduc)	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	58
82	Palace, les secrets des palaces les plus mythiques du monde	majelan	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	48
83	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
84	Les mots sauvages	Anne-Sophie Gouyen	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	53
85	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
86	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
87	Mirage	Laureline Dargery	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	94
88	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
89	L'histoire de la Grande Guerre	Musée de la Grande Guerre	Society & Culture	14	Audiomeans	53
90	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	291	Acast	69
91	"Victimes, leur vie a basculé"	TELEPARIS GALAXIE	Society & Culture	6	Acast	63
92	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
93	Au rayon séries	Emmanuel Taïeb	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	53
94	Hailey Bieber - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	69
95	پادکست نامه‌ها	Ali Ashna	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	33
96	Le Tour de France des savoir-faire	Le Tour de France des savoir-faire	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	48
97	impermanent	Léonie Ragot	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
98	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
99	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
100	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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