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 18 févr. 2026

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02/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 131

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:32:28

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. RTBF (2 shows)

4. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (18 shows)

2. Audiomeans (16 shows)

3. Ausha (16 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 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	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
8	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
9	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
12	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
13	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
14	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
15	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
17	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
18	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
19	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
20	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
21	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
22	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
23	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
24	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
25	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
26	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
27	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
28	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
29	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
30	Puerto Rico, la isla del encanto	Heïdi Soupault	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	63
31	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
32	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
33	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
34	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
35	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
36	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
37	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
38	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
39	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
40	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
42	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
43	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
45	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
46	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
47	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
48	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
49	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
50	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
51	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
52	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
53	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
54	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
55	Learn From Altitude	Globule Radio / Mountain Path	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	54
56	Elizabeth II	RTL	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	59
57	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
58	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
59	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	59
60	NOUS Malouins - Le podcast des amoureux de Saint-Malo	Brieuc Quil	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	62
61	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
62	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
63	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
64	Savoirs & culture - L'Envers du décor Details temporarily unavailable	BLYND	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	73
65	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
66	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
67	Doing Justice	CAFE	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	69
68	le sens de l'histoire, Irlande du Nord l'inéluctable réunification de l'île	dolores aloia	Society & Culture	1	Ausha	53
69	Être un homme	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	35	Acast	89
70	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
71	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
72	Tout est affaires	Outre-mer la 1ère	Society & Culture	9	Octopus	43
73	Behind The Barcode	Baptist World Aid Australia	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	53
74	Legends	Eleanor Gilbert	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	53
75	En immersion à l'école des commissaires de police	ENSP Podcasts	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	48
76	XXI	Revue 21	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	79
77	Expertes à la Une	Christelle Chiroux, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	64
78	Digging Deep: True Stories of Big Change	kelley styring	Society & Culture	14	Spotify for Podcasters	58
79	Days Like These	ABC	Society & Culture	128	ABC Australia	43
80	The Witness: True Stories of Children and Gender Identity	Partners for Ethical Care	Society & Culture	36	Podbean	42
81	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
82	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
83	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
84	FRICTIONS, raconter le monde par l'intime	Frictions	Society & Culture	143	Ausha	63
85	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
86	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	28
87	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
88	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
89	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
90	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
91	Les mots sauvages	Anne-Sophie Gouyen	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	53
92	Er is iets vreemds gebeurd	Babylon AC / Dag en Nacht Media	Society & Culture	6	ART19	79
93	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
94	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
95	Aveyronnais et engagés	SDIS de l'Aveyron	Society & Culture	11	Podcastics	94
96	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
97	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
98	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
99	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
100	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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