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 22 May 2026

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05/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 132

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:38:48

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. Audible Original (2 shows)

4. RTL (2 shows)

5. BFMTV (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Audiomeans (18 shows)

3. Ausha (13 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. Transistor (4 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	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
5	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
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	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
9	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
10	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
11	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
12	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
13	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
14	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	53
15	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
16	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
17	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
18	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
19	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
20	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
21	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
22	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
23	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
24	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	975	Spreaker	64
25	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
26	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
27	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	300	Spotify for Podcasters	32
28	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
29	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
30	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
32	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
33	La tête haute	Charlotte Abramow	Society & Culture	1	Audiomeans	64
34	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
35	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
36	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
37	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
38	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
39	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
40	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
41	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
42	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	14	Audiomeans	68
43	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
44	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
45	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
46	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
47	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
48	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
49	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
51	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
52	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
53	INSIDE CumEx – Jagd auf die Steuer-Mafia	ARD	Society & Culture	9	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	42
54	Les mémoires effacées	L'ambre fin	Society & Culture	3	Vodio	84
55	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
57	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
58	Prisons: hors les mythes	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	69
59	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
60	Avenirs par AirZen	AirZen Radio	Society & Culture	40	Audiomeans	64
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
62	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
63	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	33	Ausha	79
64	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
65	Nos chaînons invisibles	Elson	Society & Culture	15	Podcastics	74
66	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
67	Demi-Sel // Le podcast qui révèle la Bretagne	Région Bretagne	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	79
68	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	90	Acast	69
69	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
71	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
72	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
73	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
74	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
75	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
76	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
77	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
78	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
79	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
80	CAMBIUM, le podcast de l'agroforesterie	Association Française d'Agroforesterie	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
81	Money Trauma	Miho Soon	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	43
82	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	46	Audiomeans	73
83	AU LONG	Society	Society & Culture	47	Acast	69
84	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
85	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74
86	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	235	Acast	43
87	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
88	Another Stories	Another Stories Podcast	Society & Culture	2	Acast	79
89	Experience Full Audiobook in Fiction, Contemporary	hotaudiobook.com	Society & Culture	2000	Unknown	53
90	Et si on parlait du phénomène OVNI avec Olivier Bernard auteur du livre Les lueurs célestes présentée par Sophie Vitali	Et si on parlait du phénomène OVNI avec Olivier Bernard auteur du livre Les lueurs célestes présentée par Sophie Vitali	Society & Culture	1	Ausha	53
91	Caetano Veloso - Biografia Relâmpago	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	53
92	Carnets d'alerte, le podcast	Juliette Duquesne	News	32	Audiomeans	83
93	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
94	impermanent	Léonie Ragot	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
95	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	73
96	Sauver sa peau	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	2	Audiomeans	68
97	L'Art Diplomatique	L'art Diplomatique	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	58
98	Deep Doku	Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg	Society & Culture	129	Unknown	48
99	Gendarmerie Nationale, 300 Nuances de bleu	Gendarmerie Podcast	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	48
100	Seelenfänger	Bayerischer Rundfunk	Society & Culture	63	Bayerischer Rundfunk	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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