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 16 Oct 2025

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10/16/2025

Average data

Episodes: 114

Frequency: every 22 days

Duration: 00:34:03

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Audiomeans (19 shows)

3. Ausha (15 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. Transistor (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	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
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	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
9	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
10	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
11	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
12	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
15	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
16	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
17	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
18	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
19	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
20	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
21	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
22	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
23	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
24	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
25	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
26	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
27	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
28	La Diagonale des Autres	LAETITA LANTIERI	Society & Culture	18	Unknown	63
29	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
30	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
31	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
32	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
33	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
34	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
35	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
36	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
37	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
38	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
39	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
40	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
41	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
42	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
43	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
44	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
45	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
46	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
47	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
48	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
49	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
50	Nos précieux aînés	NADIA AOI-YDI	Society & Culture	21	Ausha	63
51	Emma Chamberlain - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	69
52	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
53	Homo swipiens	Homo swipiens	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	53
54	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
55	Les IDEstructibles - un podcast des étudiants en sciences infirmières de l'IFSI de Blois	IFSI Blois	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	42
56	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
57	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
58	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
59	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
60	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
61	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
63	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
64	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
65	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
66	La révolution, et après ? Un podcast Frictions	Frictions	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	53
67	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
68	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
69	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
70	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
71	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
72	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
73	Nos trajectoires comme des planètes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	63
74	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
75	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
76	Prea Sărac	Media DoR	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	69
77	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
78	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
79	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
80	Différences	Audrey Styczen	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	69
81	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
82	Beyond the Veil - un podcast sur la mort	Virginie Barba	Society & Culture	26	Ausha	78
83	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
84	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
85	L'Odyssée de James Joyce	Laura El Makki & David Federmann	Society & Culture	6	Acast	74
86	Gendarmerie Nationale, 300 Nuances de bleu	Gendarmerie Podcast	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	48
87	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79
88	Les enfants nés du viol	Maude Petel-Légaré	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	79
89	The Method	Louie Media & Les Glorieuses	Society & Culture	7	Acast	74
90	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
91	TIJ (The Inner Journey)	Amel	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	53
92	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
93	Je suis migrant·e	ProjetM	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	59
94	Mes Sorties Culture	Mes Sorties Culture	Society & Culture	93	Ausha	69
95	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	89	Buzzsprout	57
96	Vieille peau	Charlotte Dumartheray	Society & Culture	9	Acast	84
97	Marguerite : la traversée	Émilie Monnet, Productions Onishka et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	5	Transistor	63
98	Il Ciclo Della Discordia	Michela Chimenti	Society & Culture	8	Spreaker	79
99	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
100	OMG : décodons les biotech	Inf'OGM	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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