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 27 Feb 2026

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02/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 116

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:34:29

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (2 shows)

3. RTBF (2 shows)

4. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

5. Le prof de latin-grec (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (19 shows)

2. Acast (18 shows)

3. Ausha (16 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

5. Podcastics (5 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	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
4	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
5	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
8	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	388	Audion	58
10	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
11	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
12	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
13	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	76	Spotify for Podcasters	22
17	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
18	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
19	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
20	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
21	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
22	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
23	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
24	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
25	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
26	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
27	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
28	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
29	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
30	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
31	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
32	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
33	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
34	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
35	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
36	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
37	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
38	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
39	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
40	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
41	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
42	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	90	Acast	69
43	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
44	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Audiomeans	84
45	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
46	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
47	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	73
48	Gueules Cassées	Audio Pictura	Society & Culture	6	Podcastics	84
49	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
50	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
51	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
52	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
53	Par le petit bout du mythe	Le prof de latin-grec	Society & Culture	40	Ausha	69
54	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
55	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
56	TIJ (The Inner Journey)	Amel	Education	232	Ausha	43
57	La vie sans filtre - Les Podcasts Macif	Les Podcasts Macif	Society & Culture	45	Audiomeans	83
58	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
60	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	73
61	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
62	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
63	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	73
64	DES RACINES & DES AILES	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	35	Audiomeans	63
65	Puerto Rico, la isla del encanto	Heïdi Soupault	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	63
66	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	975	Spreaker	64
67	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
68	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
69	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
70	De Rossistische Podcast	Rosie Coetsier	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	48
71	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
72	L'E3 Cast, le podcast de Grenoble INP Ense3	L'E³ Cast	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	68
73	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
74	Le bon angle	Manon Marques	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	63
75	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
76	NOUS GUÉRIR	Alice Lefilleul et Malika Beloucif	Society & Culture	7	Transistor	59
77	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
78	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
79	KICK RADIO	Ice Americano	Society & Culture	60	Acast	69
80	Je suis migrant·e	ProjetM	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	53
81	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
82	Du Pin sur la Planche - à la découverte de la forêt et du bois	Delphine Gardin	Society & Culture	18	Ausha	58
83	Tè ! lo podcast	CIRDOC - Institut occitan de cultura	Society & Culture	58	Podcastics	53
84	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
85	Enquête d'avenir	Ariane Cronel	Society & Culture	36	Spotify for Podcasters	73
86	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
87	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
88	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
90	Transmission	Collectif Transmission	Society & Culture	44	Ausha	63
91	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74
92	Réparer les vivantes	Association Réparons l'excision	Society & Culture	11	Audiomeans	59
93	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
94	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
95	Osez rêver	MACSF	Society & Culture	4	Podcastics	59
96	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
97	Identités	Dakitse ou Eloge	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	53
98	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	219	Unknown	43
99	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
100	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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