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 Oct 2025

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10/17/2025

Average data

Episodes: 115

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:37:23

Top 5 authors

1. RTL (4 shows)

2. Louie Media (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (20 shows)

2. Acast (19 shows)

3. Ausha (12 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

5. Megaphone (8 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	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
13	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
14	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
17	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
18	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
19	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
20	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
21	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
22	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
23	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
24	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
25	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
26	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
27	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
29	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
31	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
33	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
34	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
35	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
36	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
37	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
38	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
39	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
40	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
41	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
42	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
43	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
44	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
45	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
46	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
47	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
48	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
50	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
51	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
52	Prea Sărac	Media DoR	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	69
53	La Diagonale des Autres	LAETITA LANTIERI	Society & Culture	18	Unknown	63
54	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
55	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
56	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
57	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
58	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
59	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
60	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
61	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
62	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
63	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
64	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
65	Un bled à soi	Institut du monde arabe	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	59
66	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
67	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
68	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
69	Nos précieux aînés	NADIA AOI-YDI	Society & Culture	21	Ausha	63
70	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
71	E poi il silenzio - Il disastro di Rigopiano	Pablo Trincia – Sky Original by Chora Media	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	48
72	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
73	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
74	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
75	Emma Chamberlain - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	69
76	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
77	Différences	Audrey Styczen	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	69
78	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
79	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
80	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
81	LE DESIGN SUR ÉCOUTE	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	31	Audiomeans	73
82	Homo swipiens	Homo swipiens	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	53
83	capsule !	capsule !	Documentary	31	podCloud	64
84	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74
85	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
86	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
87	Les IDEstructibles - un podcast des étudiants en sciences infirmières de l'IFSI de Blois	IFSI Blois	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	42
88	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
89	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
90	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	17	Ausha	79
91	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
92	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
93	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
94	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
95	Mémoire(s) de Dunkerque	Delta FM	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	63
96	Déclit	Déclit - le podcast	Society & Culture	9	Substack	49
97	Confort moderne Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	11	N/A	N/A
98	Just divorced	Just divorced	Society & Culture	3	Ausha	69
99	Epidemia Ultra	Franco Delle Donne	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	68
100	PBCast	Journal Paysan Breton	Society & Culture	36	Ausha	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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