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 Nov 2025

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11/19/2025

Average data

Episodes: 154

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:38:00

Top 5 authors

1. RTL (4 shows)

2. Louie Media (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. StudioFact Audio (2 shows)

5. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (19 shows)

2. Acast (18 shows)

3. Ausha (15 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (11 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	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
6	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
8	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
11	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
12	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
13	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
16	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
17	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
18	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
19	Les orphelins du 13 novembre	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
20	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
22	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
23	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
24	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
25	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
26	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
27	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
28	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
29	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
30	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
31	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
32	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
33	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
34	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
36	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
38	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
39	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
40	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
41	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
42	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
43	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
44	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
45	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	59
46	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
47	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
48	Entre Deux Vagues	Chloe Leger	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	64
49	L'histoire de la Grande Guerre	Musée de la Grande Guerre	Society & Culture	14	Audiomeans	53
50	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
51	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
52	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
53	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
54	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
55	Nos précieux aînés	NADIA AOI-YDI	Society & Culture	21	Ausha	63
56	Emma Chamberlain - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	69
57	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
58	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
59	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
60	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
61	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
62	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
63	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
64	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
65	À VIF ! Créer pour Résister	Noa Levy-Baron, Agathe Redier, Marie Wallaert	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	38
66	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
67	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
68	Bref, l’effondrement.	Cyril Hique	Society & Culture	45	Ausha	43
69	Avestruz Master	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	53
70	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
71	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
72	Du Pin sur la Planche - à la découverte de la forêt et du bois	Delphine Gardin	Society & Culture	17	Ausha	63
73	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
74	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
75	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
76	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	83
77	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
78	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
79	Tè ! lo podcast	CIRDOC - Institut occitan de cultura	Society & Culture	58	Podcastics	53
80	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
81	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
82	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
83	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
84	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
85	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
86	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
87	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
88	Tout est affaires	Outre-mer la 1ère	Society & Culture	9	Octopus	43
90	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
91	L'Horizon et au-delà, par GEO	Prisma Media	Society & Culture	16	Audion	58
92	Escafandro	Rádio Escafandro	Society & Culture	202	Spotify for Podcasters	38
93	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
94	Descendances	Alice Fidelle et Clara Haelters	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	69
95	Histoires d'en haut	Le Dauphiné Libéré	Society & Culture	61	Acast	59
96	Listen on the Go, Anytime With Free Audiobook \| Fiction, Contemporary	Free Audiobook	Society & Culture	3998	Unknown	59
97	Backstage, derrière le micro	Benoit Thièbe	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	78
98	Prince William - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	1	Spreaker	43
99	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
100	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	122	Acast	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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