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 17 avr. 2026

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04/17/2026

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Episodes: 102

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:34:53

Top 5 authors

1. Nouvelles Écoutes (4 shows)

2. Louie Media (4 shows)

3. Nouvelles Écoutes (3 shows)

4. RTL (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Audiomeans (16 shows)

3. Ausha (14 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 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	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
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	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
8	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
9	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
10	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
11	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
12	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
13	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
14	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
15	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
16	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
17	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
18	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
19	PRÉSENT RECOMPOSÉ	ADD ASSOCIES	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	74
20	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
21	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
22	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
23	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
24	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
25	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
26	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
27	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
28	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
29	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
30	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
31	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
32	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
33	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
34	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
35	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
36	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
37	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
38	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
39	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
40	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
41	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
43	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
44	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
45	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
46	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
47	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
48	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
49	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
50	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	17	Ausha	79
51	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
52	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
53	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
54	Une fausse couche comme les autres	majelan	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	38
55	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
56	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
57	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
58	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
59	Dans mon étude	Chambre des notaires de la Gironde	Society & Culture	9	Podcastics	49
60	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
61	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
62	De voix en voies	OPCO Santé	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
63	Histoires lesbiennes	Marine GILIS	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
64	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
66	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
67	Studio 56	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	63
68	CAMBIUM, le podcast de l'agroforesterie	Association Française d'Agroforesterie	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
69	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
70	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
71	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
72	De Vondeling	AT5	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53
73	вДудь	vDud	Society & Culture	16	Spotify for Podcasters	33
74	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
75	INSPIRANT	Guillaume Descave	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	38
76	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
77	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
78	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
79	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
80	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
81	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
82	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
83	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
84	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
85	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
86	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
87	Complètement Toqués \| Le podcast de la gastronomie, les grands chefs de la région, leurs parcours, leurs engagements.	LYON 1ère	Society & Culture	205	Ausha	38
88	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
89	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
90	OUTLAWS: The Good Thief	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	59
91	Improbable	BBC Mundo	Society & Culture	10	BBC	39
92	Osez rêver	MACSF	Society & Culture	4	Podcastics	59
93	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
94	La tête haute	Charlotte Abramow	Society & Culture	1	Audiomeans	64
95	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
96	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
97	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
98	The Hummingbird Collective	Sarah Noble & Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	73
99	Et néanmoins la poésie...Philippe Jaccottet	Chahut Média	Society & Culture	4	Captivate	52
100	Fédération Nationale des Producteurs de Lait	FNPL	Society & Culture	55	Spotify for Podcasters	28

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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