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 19 Sep 2025

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09/19/2025

Average data

Episodes: 112

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:33:10

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. Paradiso Media (3 shows)

4. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (21 shows)

2. Acast (19 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (12 shows)

4. Ausha (9 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	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
8	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	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	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	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
15	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
16	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
17	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
18	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
19	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
22	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
23	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
24	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
25	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
26	Priscille Podcast	Priscille Podcast	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	37
27	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
28	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
29	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
30	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
31	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
32	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
33	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
34	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
35	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
36	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
37	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
38	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	34	Podcastics	63
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
40	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
41	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
42	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
43	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
44	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
46	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
47	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
48	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
49	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
50	Enquête d'avenir	Ariane Cronel	Society & Culture	36	Spotify for Podcasters	73
51	Luso Bribes	Gabrielle Hlt	Society & Culture	22	Ausha	73
52	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
53	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
54	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
55	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
56	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
57	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
58	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
59	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
60	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
61	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
62	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
63	Echo System by Cercle	Cercle	Society & Culture	13	Acast	64
64	DOLLS HOUSE	Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	59
65	OQTF : l'outil d'une politique d'expulsion française	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	4	Acast	53
66	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
67	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	120	Simplecast	53
68	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
69	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
70	Marguerite : la traversée	Émilie Monnet, Productions Onishka et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	5	Transistor	63
71	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74
72	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
73	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
74	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
75	Bleue comme Mars	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	74
76	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
77	Les Dossiers Warren	Emma Benzelmat	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	53
78	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
79	En immersion à l'école des commissaires de police	ENSP Podcasts	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	48
80	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
81	EcoloThème	Plume, Daphnée et O2 l'écolo	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	58
82	Les mots sauvages	Anne-Sophie Gouyen	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	53
83	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
84	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
85	XXI	Revue 21	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	79
86	I'm Disabled... So What?	Lauren Mill & Heather Monger	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	78
87	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
88	Là où les voix résonnent : échos de centres de rétention administrative	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Acast	63
89	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
90	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
91	La Biblioteca de los Sueños: Documentales para Dormir	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	51	Simplecast	68
92	Être un homme	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	35	Acast	89
93	Campagnes urbaines	Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
94	Auprès de vous	Département de Maine-et-Loire	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	79
95	Les 5 Langues d'amour expliquees.mp3	Mildred Baxter	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	Celles qui restent	Sarah Gay-Balmaz	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
97	Albert nous parle	Le Prix Albert-Londres	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	79
98	Matrimoine	Studio Flamboyances	Society & Culture	19	podCloud	74
99	Jennifer Lawrence - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	16	Spreaker	69
100	Sortir de l'urgence	FHF (Fédération Hospitalière de France)	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	84

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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