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 13 Dec 2025

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12/13/2025

Average data

Episodes: 106

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:33:53

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Ausha (13 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
3	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
5	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
8	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
11	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
12	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
13	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
14	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
15	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
16	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
17	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
18	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
19	Le Roi des Monstres	École normale supérieure - PSL	Society & Culture	3	Acast	69
20	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
21	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
22	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
23	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
24	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
25	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
26	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
27	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
28	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
29	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
30	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
31	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
32	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
33	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
34	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
35	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
36	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
37	101 Visages	Webistan & Les Ateliers Reza	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
38	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
39	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
40	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
41	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
42	À VIF ! Créer pour Résister	Noa Levy-Baron, Agathe Redier, Marie Wallaert	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	38
43	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	22
44	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
45	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
46	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
47	Learn From Altitude	Globule Radio / Mountain Path	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	54
48	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	63
49	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
50	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
51	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
52	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
53	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
54	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
55	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	83
56	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
57	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
58	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
59	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
60	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
61	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
62	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
63	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
64	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
65	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
66	Les orphelins du 13 novembre	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
67	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
68	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
69	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
71	De Ware Jacob	Dagblad van het Noorden	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	69
72	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
73	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
74	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
75	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
76	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
77	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
78	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
79	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
80	DES TRAINS PAS COMME LES AUTRES	TV ON EAR	Society & Culture	69	Audiomeans	58
81	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
82	La Buissonnière	Clap Audio	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	89
83	Là où les voix résonnent : échos de centres de rétention administrative	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Acast	63
84	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
85	Women of the Seas	Le podcast des aventurières de la Mer	Society & Culture	20	Acast	74
86	Avis de Tempête	Avis de Tempête	Society & Culture	8	Unknown	49
87	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
88	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
89	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
90	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
91	Les femmes qui lisent	Laure Gabus	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
92	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
93	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
94	Les Vrais Souverains	Arnaud Montebourg	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	74
95	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
96	murmur	murmur média	Society & Culture	4	Acast	84
97	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
98	Visionaries	unknown_author	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	48
99	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
100	La familia correcta	El País Audio / WePod	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	84

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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