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 Oct 2025

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10/18/2025

Average data

Episodes: 115

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:37:45

Top 5 authors

1. RTL (5 shows)

2. Louie Media (4 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. RTBF (3 shows)

5. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (20 shows)

2. Acast (20 shows)

3. Ausha (9 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

5. Megaphone (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	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	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
8	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
9	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
10	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
11	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
12	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
13	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
14	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
15	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
16	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
17	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
18	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
21	Homo swipiens	Homo swipiens	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	53
22	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
23	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
24	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
25	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
26	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
27	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
28	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
29	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
30	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
31	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
32	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
33	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
34	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
35	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
36	Demi-Sel // Le podcast qui révèle la Bretagne	Région Bretagne	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	79
37	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
38	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
39	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
40	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
41	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
42	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
43	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
44	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	17	Ausha	79
45	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
46	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
48	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
49	Prea Sărac	Media DoR	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	69
50	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
51	OMG : décodons les biotech	Inf'OGM	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	53
52	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
53	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
54	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
55	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
56	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
57	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
58	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
59	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
60	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
61	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
62	Comment on s'aime ?	Klaam	Society & Culture	13	Acast	64
63	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
65	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
66	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
67	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
68	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
69	Emma Chamberlain - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	69
70	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
71	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
72	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
73	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
74	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
75	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
76	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
77	La Diagonale des Autres	LAETITA LANTIERI	Society & Culture	18	Unknown	63
78	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
79	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
80	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
81	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
82	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
83	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	89	Buzzsprout	57
84	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
85	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
86	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Acast	84
87	Elizabeth II	RTL	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	59
88	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
89	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
90	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
91	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
92	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
93	Learn From Altitude	Globule Radio / Mountain Path	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	54
94	Blast - La première Gilet jaune du dernier rond-point	Franck Dépretz, France Timmermans, Baptiste Veilhan	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	49
95	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
96	Van Dis Ongefilterd	Atlas Contact / Adriaan van Dis	Society & Culture	70	Omny Studio	89
97	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
98	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
99	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
100	Histoires d'en haut	Le Dauphiné Libéré	Society & Culture	61	Acast	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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