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 15 Feb 2026

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02/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 97

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:34:20

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

5. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Ausha (15 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

5. BBC (5 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	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
4	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
5	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
7	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
8	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
11	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
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	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
16	Puerto Rico, la isla del encanto	Heïdi Soupault	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	63
17	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
18	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
19	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
20	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
21	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
22	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
23	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
24	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
25	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
26	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
27	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
28	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
29	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
30	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
33	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
35	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
36	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
37	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
38	Aveyronnais et engagés	SDIS de l'Aveyron	Society & Culture	11	Podcastics	94
39	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
40	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
41	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	59
42	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
43	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
44	Priscille Podcast	Priscille Podcast	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	37
45	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
46	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	28
47	Puerto Rico, la isla del encanto	Heïdi Soupault	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	38
48	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
49	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
50	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	53	Ausha	53
51	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
52	En immersion à l'école des commissaires de police	ENSP Podcasts	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	48
53	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
54	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
55	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
56	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
58	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
59	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
60	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
61	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
62	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
63	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
64	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
65	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
66	CAMBIUM, le podcast de l'agroforesterie	Association Française d'Agroforesterie	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
67	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
68	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
69	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
70	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
71	OMG : décodons les biotech	Inf'OGM	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	53
72	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
73	De Ware Jacob	Dagblad van het Noorden	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	69
74	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
75	Het geluk van Limburg \| De losse eindjes van Frans Pollux	NPO Luister / HUMAN	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	69
76	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
77	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
78	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
79	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
80	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
81	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
82	X Docs Français	X Dox	Society & Culture	15	Spotify for Podcasters	43
83	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
84	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
85	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
86	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
87	Savoirs & culture - L'Envers du décor Details temporarily unavailable	BLYND	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	73
88	Les mots sauvages	Anne-Sophie Gouyen	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	53
89	Journal de bord d'un voyage en Islande	Alice Lepage	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	53
90	Un quart d'heure à Paris	Ville de Paris	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	79
91	Les héroïnes ordinaires (de plus de 50 ans)	Fabienne PROST	Society & Culture	18	Acast	89
92	Seelenfänger	Bayerischer Rundfunk	Society & Culture	57	Bayerischer Rundfunk	68
93	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
94	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
95	Er is iets vreemds gebeurd	Babylon AC / Dag en Nacht Media	Society & Culture	6	ART19	79
96	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
97	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
98	Frantz Fanon: revolutionary psychiatrist	WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	48
99	De chez les fêlés	Emmanuelle Gautier	Society & Culture	18	Podcastics	69
100	L'Instant Papillon	Stéphanie Grosjean	Society & Culture	29	Acast	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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