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 23 déc. 2025

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12/23/2025

Average data

Episodes: 115

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:33:24

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

5. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Ausha (7 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

5. BBC (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 fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
8	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
9	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
10	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
11	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
12	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
13	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
14	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
15	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
16	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
19	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
20	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
21	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
22	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
23	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
24	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
25	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
26	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
27	Le Roi des Monstres	École normale supérieure - PSL	Society & Culture	3	Acast	69
28	Lang Déléyé si Servis Kabaré	Béatrice Velin-Cassim et Juliette Pierron-Rauwel	Society & Culture	5	Acast	63
29	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
30	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
31	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
32	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
33	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
34	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
35	Afterres2050	AFTERRES	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	69
36	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
37	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
38	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
39	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
40	BXL 1001 VIES	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	10	Acast	79
41	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
42	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
43	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
44	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Acast	84
45	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
46	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
47	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
48	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
49	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
50	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
51	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
52	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
53	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
54	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
55	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
56	Les conférences de la Fondation Inalco	Inalco	Society & Culture	17	Acast	53
57	Comment on s'aime ?	Klaam	Society & Culture	13	Acast	64
58	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
59	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
60	DES TRAINS PAS COMME LES AUTRES	TV ON EAR	Society & Culture	69	Audiomeans	58
61	CAMBIUM, le podcast de l'agroforesterie	Association Française d'Agroforesterie	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
62	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
63	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
64	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
65	夜航船	洛不知秋	Society & Culture	24	Ximalaya	53
66	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
67	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
68	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
69	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
70	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
71	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
72	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
73	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
74	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
75	Milenio3	La Nave del Misterio	Society & Culture	150	iVoox	43
76	La familia correcta	El País Audio / WePod	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	84
77	Maudites chansons…de Noël	majelan X	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
78	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
79	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
80	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
81	Привет, ты иноагент	Sonya Groysman	Society & Culture	58	Libsyn	89
82	Emma Chamberlain - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	69
83	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
84	The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	10	PRX	49
85	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
86	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
87	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
88	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
89	Women of the Seas	Le podcast des aventurières de la Mer	Society & Culture	20	Acast	74
90	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
91	Par le petit bout du mythe	Le prof de latin-grec	Society & Culture	40	Ausha	69
92	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
93	North-East Scots (Doric): History, Present & Future	University of Aberdeen	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	53
94	The Civilian Protection Podcast	CIVIC & PAX	Society & Culture	17	Transistor	73
95	Zündstoff	Franziska Engelhardt, Stefanie Müller-Frank	Society & Culture	7	Podigee	69
96	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
97	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
98	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
100	Maison Radieuse, premières années	ECPAD	Society & Culture	6	Podcastics	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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