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 20 Aug 2025

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08/20/2025

Average data

Episodes: 125

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:36:21

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

5. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

4. Ausha (8 shows)

5. BBC (6 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	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
3	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
6	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
7	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
8	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
11	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
12	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
13	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
14	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Parcours, la parole aux invisibles	Society & Culture	34	Audiomeans	59
15	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
16	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
17	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
18	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
19	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
20	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
21	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
22	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
23	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
24	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
25	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
26	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
27	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
28	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
29	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
30	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
31	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
32	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
33	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
34	Gisors et le trésor des Templiers	Jocelyne Giani	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	43
35	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
36	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
37	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
38	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
39	Le conflit mot à mot	Akadem	Society & Culture	5	Unknown	43
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
42	KICK RADIO	Ice Americano	Society & Culture	60	Acast	69
43	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
44	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
45	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
46	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Acast	84
47	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
48	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
49	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
50	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
51	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
52	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
53	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
54	impermanent	Léonie Ragot	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
55	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
56	Une bataille mais pas la guerre	Making Waves	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	48
57	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
58	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
59	Faire groupe à la campagne	Université de Bourgogne / Making Waves	Society & Culture	5	Transistor	63
60	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
61	juste un moment	ipso santé	Society & Culture	5	Acast	74
62	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
63	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
64	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	53	Ausha	53
65	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
66	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
67	DES TRAINS PAS COMME LES AUTRES	TV ON EAR	Society & Culture	69	Audiomeans	58
68	Sillon Bulle	Roland Harper	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	33
69	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
70	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
71	Problèmes de riches Saison 2	majelan	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	38
72	Armand Vaquerin, la dernière tournée	Atelier Frissonne	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	48
73	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
74	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
75	AU LONG	Society	Society & Culture	47	Acast	69
76	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
77	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
79	Une place à table	Making Waves	Society & Culture	6	Transistor	59
80	Immersion Podcast \| Documentaires Français Intéressants VF \| Docs Reportages & Emissions 2024	Immersion DOCS Podcast	Society & Culture	2	Acast	48
81	À VIF ! Créer pour Résister	Noa Levy-Baron, Agathe Redier, Marie Wallaert	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	38
82	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
83	101 Visages	Webistan & Les Ateliers Reza	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
84	Más Allá del Rosa	Jessica Fernández	Society & Culture	228	Acast	79
85	GEOTIME : La Culture Géographique !	M4RCO	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	38
86	Nos Chemins de Liberté	Mairie de Plouguerneau	Society & Culture	23	Podcastics	74
87	Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast	Erin Elizabeth Hynes of Pina Travels	Society & Culture	158	Audioboom	47
88	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
89	Les Vrais Souverains	Arnaud Montebourg	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	74
90	Mes Sorties Culture	Mes Sorties Culture	Society & Culture	93	Ausha	69
91	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
92	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
93	Cui Bono: Wer hat Angst vorm Drachenlord?	Studio Bummens & Undone	Society & Culture	19	Podigee	53
94	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
95	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
96	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
97	Samir - Contes et mystères	Samir - Contes et mystères	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	48
98	JE SUIS UN MONSTRE	Society Magazine	Society & Culture	7	Acast	64
99	À la recherche du fromage disparu Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
100	Réparer les vivantes	Association Réparons l'excision	Society & Culture	11	Audiomeans	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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