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 Aug 2025

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08/17/2025

Average data

Episodes: 100

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:31:52

Top 5 authors

1. RTL (4 shows)

2. Louie Media (4 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

4. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

5. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Audiomeans (20 shows)

3. Ausha (9 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

5. Megaphone (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	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
3	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
4	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
6	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
7	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
8	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
9	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
10	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
11	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
12	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
13	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
14	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
15	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Society & Culture	34	Audiomeans	59
16	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
17	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
18	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
19	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
22	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
23	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
24	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
25	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
26	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
27	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
28	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
29	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
30	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
31	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
32	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
33	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
34	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
36	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
37	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
38	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
39	Sillon Bulle	Roland Harper	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	33
40	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
41	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
42	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
43	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
44	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
45	Majora Prod	Majora Prod	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	43
46	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
47	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
48	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
49	Gisors et le trésor des Templiers	Jocelyne Giani	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	43
50	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
51	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
52	1940, Winston devient Churchill	Creation Collective / Binge Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	48
53	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
54	[En]quête d'architecture	Anne-Claire Jestin	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	84
55	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
56	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
57	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
58	La recherche à l'écoute	IRD	Society & Culture	18	Podcastics	84
59	Learn From Altitude	Globule Radio / Mountain Path	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	54
60	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
61	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
62	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
63	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
64	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
65	TIJ (The Inner Journey)	Amel	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	53
66	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
67	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
68	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
69	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
70	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
71	Au coeur des tiers-lieux : les éclaireurs de la transformation écologique	ANCT Agence-nationale-de-la-cohésion-des-territoires	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	53
72	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
73	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74
74	KICK RADIO	Ice Americano	Society & Culture	60	Acast	69
75	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
76	Une place à table	Making Waves	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	59
77	En immersion à l'école des commissaires de police	ENSP Podcasts	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	48
78	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
79	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
80	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
81	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
82	Le conflit mot à mot	Akadem	Society & Culture	5	Unknown	43
83	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
84	Les grandes histoires de l’est	Est Republicain/Republicain Lorrain/Vosges Matin	Society & Culture	76	Acast	89
86	L'Histoire d'un Click	Maxime Click	Society & Culture	5	Acast	63
87	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
88	Parole aux réfugié·e·s	France terre d'asile	Society & Culture	10	Podcastics	84
89	Les Dossiers Warren	Emma Benzelmat	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	53
90	Tronches de Cadres	Revue Cadres CFDT	Society & Culture	6	Podcastics	64
91	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
92	The Experiment	The Atlantic and WNYC Studios	Society & Culture	60	Simplecast	73
93	Isonomia, le podcast.	Isonomia_pure	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	43
94	Just divorced	Just divorced	Society & Culture	3	Ausha	69
95	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
96	Курсы кройки и нытья	Елена Вертий	Society & Culture	29	Podster.fm	43
97	Emma Chamberlain - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	69
98	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
99	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
100	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	89	Buzzsprout	57

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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