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 Dec 2025

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12/15/2025

Average data

Episodes: 116

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:32:46

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

4. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

5. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Audiomeans (18 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

4. Ausha (9 shows)

5. Transistor (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
5	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
8	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	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	10	Transistor	53
13	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	219	Unknown	43
14	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
15	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
16	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	76	Spotify for Podcasters	22
17	Le Roi des Monstres	École normale supérieure - PSL	Society & Culture	3	Acast	69
18	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
19	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
20	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
21	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
22	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
23	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	798	Audiomeans	74
24	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
25	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
26	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
27	Glitch, devenir handi.e	La Clameur Podcast Social Club	Society & Culture	5	podCloud	84
28	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
29	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
30	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
31	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
32	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
33	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
34	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
35	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
36	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
37	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
38	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
39	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
40	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
41	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
42	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	63	Acast	49
43	J'aime le théâtre documentaire	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	2	Captivate	48
44	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
45	Tè ! lo podcast	CIRDOC - Institut occitan de cultura	Society & Culture	58	Podcastics	53
46	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
48	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
49	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
50	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
51	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
52	L'anniversaire	Amelie Jouchoux	Society & Culture	6	Acast	53
53	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
54	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	90	Acast	69
55	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
56	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
57	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
58	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	73
59	A Eleição Mais Louca de Sempre	Observador	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	63
60	DES TRAINS PAS COMME LES AUTRES	TV ON EAR	Society & Culture	69	Audiomeans	58
61	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
62	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
63	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
64	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
65	Emma Chamberlain - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	69
66	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
67	E poi il silenzio - Il disastro di Rigopiano	Pablo Trincia – Sky Original by Chora Media	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	48
68	Maudites chansons…de Noël	majelan X	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
69	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
70	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
71	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
72	Bref, l’effondrement.	Cyril Hique	Society & Culture	47	Ausha	38
73	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Society & Culture	34	Spotify for Podcasters	22
74	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
75	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Audiomeans	84
76	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
77	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	28
78	impermanent	Léonie Ragot	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
79	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
80	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
81	Création Documentaire	Radio Grenouille	Society & Culture	27	Transistor	63
82	Heweliusz. Prawdziwa historia	Polskie Radio S.A.	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	38
83	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
84	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
85	101 Visages	Webistan & Les Ateliers Reza	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
86	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan	Society & Culture	375	Blubrry Podcasting	43
87	Crímenes Ibéricos	Abbcast	Society & Culture	286	Unknown	49
88	Nos trajectoires comme des planètes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	63
89	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
90	La ville devant soi	Making Waves	Society & Culture	5	Transistor	59
91	The Future of UE Archives	The Futre of UE Archives ChangeLab	Society & Culture	2	RSS.com	62
92	Expediente Umbral	Fundación Juan March	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	64
93	Mémoires d'Augustines	Le Monastère des Augustines	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	63
94	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
95	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
96	La voix des métiers	Orientation Vaud	Society & Culture	60	Acast	69
97	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
98	Les Vrais Souverains	Arnaud Montebourg	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	74
99	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
100	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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