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 Dec 2025

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12/17/2025

Average data

Episodes: 117

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:34:06

Top 5 authors

1. RTL (4 shows)

2. Louie Media (4 shows)

3. Nouvelles Écoutes (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (17 shows)

2. Audiomeans (16 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (14 shows)

4. Ausha (10 shows)

5. Megaphone (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
3	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
5	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
8	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
9	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
11	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
12	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
15	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
18	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
19	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
20	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
21	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
23	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
24	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
25	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
26	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
27	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
28	Le Roi des Monstres	École normale supérieure - PSL	Society & Culture	3	Acast	69
29	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
30	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
31	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
32	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
33	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
34	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
35	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
36	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
37	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
38	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
39	Glitch, devenir handi.e	La Clameur Podcast Social Club	Society & Culture	5	podCloud	84
40	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
41	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
42	Bleue comme Mars	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	74
43	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
44	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
45	Cherchez le daron Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
46	Tempête	Enedis x Slate For Brands	Society & Culture	5	Audion	79
47	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
48	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
49	Afterres2050	AFTERRES	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	69
50	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
51	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
52	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
53	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
54	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
55	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
56	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
57	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
58	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
59	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
60	Les orphelins du 13 novembre	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
61	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
62	Penser le 9-3	Making Waves et Profession Banlieue	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	63
64	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
65	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
66	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
67	101 Visages	Webistan & Les Ateliers Reza	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
68	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
69	OMG : décodons les biotech	Inf'OGM	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	53
70	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
71	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
72	Non-Binaires	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	9	Acast	69
73	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
74	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
75	Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle	The Christian Post	Society & Culture	39	Transistor	83
76	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
77	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
78	Histoires lesbiennes	Marine GILIS	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
79	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
80	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
81	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
82	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
83	暮らし百景	伝記家あっきー	Society & Culture	117	Spotify for Podcasters	33
84	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
85	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
86	The Broken Truth \| History Podcast	Garrett Greene	Society & Culture	54	Spotify for Podcasters	32
87	Chroniques du Grand Domaine	Lili Sohn et Théo Boulenger	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
88	真夜中の農業電波	農家オオスズキ	Society & Culture	58	Unknown	43
89	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
90	JP fortæller	Jyllands-Posten	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	59
91	Тюремный подкаст	Поехавший	Society & Culture	134	mave	73
92	Une bataille mais pas la guerre	Making Waves	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	48
93	Onironautas	Onironautas	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	43
94	Seelenfänger	Bayerischer Rundfunk	Society & Culture	57	Bayerischer Rundfunk	68
95	Santé & Sécurité - Le Podcast	Santé & Sécurité - Le Podcast	Society & Culture	135	Ausha	42
96	No te lo habías preguntado	Podimo	Society & Culture	39	ART19	53
97	Les humains derrière la recherche en soins palliatifs	Réseau québécois de recherche en soins palliatifs et de fin de vie (RQSPAL)	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	42
98	Crime e Castigo	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	59
99	Voix de policière	ADPPNIQ	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	38
100	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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