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 Oct 2025

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10/19/2025

Average data

Episodes: 130

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:35:36

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

5. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Audiomeans (18 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

4. Ausha (8 shows)

5. Megaphone (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
4	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
5	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
8	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
9	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
11	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
12	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
13	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
14	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
17	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
18	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
19	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
20	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
21	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
22	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
23	Homo swipiens	Homo swipiens	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	53
24	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
25	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
26	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
27	Prea Sărac	Media DoR	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	69
28	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
29	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
31	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
32	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
33	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
34	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
35	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
36	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
37	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
38	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
39	Déclit	Déclit - le podcast	Society & Culture	9	Substack	49
40	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
41	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
42	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	798	Audiomeans	74
43	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
44	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
45	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
46	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
47	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
48	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
49	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
50	Hateland	ARD	Society & Culture	16	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	63
51	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
52	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
53	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
54	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
55	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	13	Spreaker	74
57	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
58	Demi-Sel // Le podcast qui révèle la Bretagne	Région Bretagne	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	79
59	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	219	Unknown	43
60	Learn From Altitude	Globule Radio / Mountain Path	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	54
61	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	63	Acast	49
62	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
63	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
64	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
65	حكايات الحرب	Atheer ~ أثير	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	73
66	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
67	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
68	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	73
69	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
70	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
71	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
72	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
73	OMG : décodons les biotech	Inf'OGM	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	53
74	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
75	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
76	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
77	Les IDEstructibles - un podcast des étudiants en sciences infirmières de l'IFSI de Blois	IFSI Blois	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	42
78	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
79	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
80	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
81	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
82	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
83	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
84	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Society & Culture	34	Audiomeans	59
85	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
86	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
87	Magtfuld	RADIO IIII	Society & Culture	74	Omny Studio	48
89	Comment on s'aime ?	Klaam	Society & Culture	13	Acast	64
90	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
91	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
92	Les mots sauvages	Anne-Sophie Gouyen	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	53
93	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
94	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
95	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
96	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
97	MISTERIO OVNI TERROR Y PARANORMAL	MISTERIO OVNI Y PARANORMAL	Society & Culture	1441	iVoox	48
98	Emma Chamberlain - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	69
99	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
100	Qui m'aime me suive !	Catherine Demangeot	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

The podcast landscape in France is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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