How this list was made
We searched YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Apple Podcasts, Reddit and the surviving English-language Malta forums for people covering moving to, living in and working in Malta and Gozo, then kept the ones with a real audience and evidence they are still publishing. We favoured people who live here over people who visited, and material aimed at adults planning a permanent move over student, nightlife and gaming-industry content, which is what most Malta creator content actually is.
Audience figures. Every YouTube subscriber count was read off the channel's own page on YouTube on 17 September 2026. Every Instagram follower count was read off the profile itself on the same day. Every Reddit member count came from Reddit's own API on the same day and is exact, not rounded. Podcast episode counts and latest-episode dates came from Apple's lookup service rather than the rendered Apple Podcasts page, which reports dates wrong by one to two years on most shows we have tested. Only the three TikTok follower counts are approximations, read from Social Blade on 17 September 2026, because TikTok would not serve us the profiles. Where Facebook publishes no member figure, the card says so rather than carrying an estimate.
On the YouTube cards. Each card carries a real video with a real upload date taken from the channel's own feed, then confirmed by YouTube's oEmbed service to belong to that channel. One card has no date: International Living's Malta material sits further back than the channel's public feed reaches. A few titles were trimmed of emoji and trailing handles and one ampersand was spelled out. No video id was changed.
On the region filter. Malta is 316 square kilometres and almost nobody publishing about it works to a region, so 44 of the 54 entries here are tagged nationwide and only ten are tagged to an area. Where a card is tagged, it is tagged to the place that card's own content concentrates on, not to where its author happens to live. Gozo is the only genuine regional split, and it is covered by its tourism board rather than by anyone who lives there.
What is not here, because it does not exist. There is no Malta retirement or relocation podcast. There is no YouTube channel or independent site covering Maltese healthcare, which for readers of this page is the most-asked question on the island. There is no independent guide to the Malta Retirement Programme, the Permanent Residence Programme or the Global Residence Programme: every detailed English source is a law firm, a tax adviser or a broker earning a fee on the application. There is no peer community for any of those routes. There is no resident publishing in English about living on Gozo, whose subreddit has 147 members. Malta InsideOut, which was the real English-language expat publication here, stopped in October 2016 and nobody replaced it.
What we would not link. Malta Travel Podcast is format-identical to shows about a dozen other countries published by the same feed operator under invented local host names, so it is a synthetic content farm and is not listed. Passport Talks is published by a residency-by-investment agency. expatlife.ai states on its own pages that its guides are machine generated and names no editor. We checked every domain listed above for the affiliate and casino takeovers that have swallowed old expat sites elsewhere in Europe and found none. Law firm and corporate services material from CSB Group, Chetcuti Cauchi and the large accountancy practices is often the only detailed English writing on the residence programmes and is frequently accurate; it is not listed here because they are selling the service, and a page like this one should not blur that line.
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Instagram and TikTok
The strongest section on the page, and the one that says most about Malta. What carries it is news and institutions rather than people who moved: three English-language newsrooms, four official accounts, and a handful of photographers and curators. There is no Instagram account for Sliema, St Julian's, Mdina or the Three Cities, and the two accounts that brand themselves as Malta expat accounts have 43 and 500 followers. Every Instagram follower count here was read off the profile itself on 17 September 2026. The three TikTok figures are Social Blade approximations, because TikTok would not serve us the profiles.
Love Malta
An anonymous account reposting other people's photographs of Malta
13,000 posts and the largest Malta account on Instagram by some distance. It is a curation account, not a creator: the images are other people's, credited in the captions. Listed because the volume gives you a fast picture of which places Maltese people and visitors actually photograph, and because at 333,000 followers it sets the visual idea of Malta that most newcomers arrive with. Nobody's name is on it, which is why it is described this way.
Lovin Malta
Malta's largest English-language digital newsroom
57,000 posts. The fastest way to see what the country is talking about on any given day, in English, written for Maltese readers. Consumer stories, cost of living, planning rows and politics. Same disclosure as its YouTube channel: its founder left in 2021 for a role with the Nationalist Party and the site announced a share transfer at the time.
VisitMalta
The Malta Tourism Authority
5,157 posts. The official account, and the best single source of images of places you have not been to yet. As with any tourism board, what you are seeing is July. The same islands in a wet January look different, and no official account will show you that.
Malta Daily
An English-language Maltese news account
47,000 posts, which is roughly twenty a day. Weather warnings, traffic, power cuts, bus changes, court results, price rises. Not journalism in the Times of Malta sense, and not trying to be. It is the practical daily feed: if something on the island is about to inconvenience you, this account carries it first.
Times of Malta
Malta's paper of record since 1935
8,142 posts. The serious end of the Maltese press on Instagram. Follow it for the stories that decide whether a permanent move works: planning and construction rules, hospital capacity, utility prices, tax changes, and the long-running corruption cases.
Malta Gozo
An anonymous travel and restaurant curation account covering both islands
1,339 posts. Restaurants, hotels, beaches and viewpoints across Malta and Gozo, reposted with credit rather than shot first hand. Useful as a running list of places worth trying, particularly on Gozo, which almost nothing else covers. Treat it as a tip sheet, not a review, since it is not clear what is paid and what is not.
Malta Photography
A curated feed of photographs submitted under a hashtag
2,891 posts. Landscape and architecture from photographers across the islands, chosen by an editor who does not name themselves. The value for someone deciding where to live is in the geography: it shows the same dozen locations again and again, which tells you where the island is beautiful and, by omission, where it is not.
Visit Gozo
The Gozo tourism board
3,640 posts. The official Gozo account and, together with the tourism board's YouTube channel, close to the whole of the English-language picture of Gozo online. Villages, coast, weaving, festas and the winter walking season, which it does cover, unusually for a tourism account.
Lisa Gwen
Lisa Gwen, who photographs Maltese doors, facades and street detail
2,106 posts. The best account on this page for the texture of Maltese towns: painted doors, knockers, tiles, balconies, shop fronts, street by street. The reason it belongs on a relocation page is that it shows you the housing stock up close, in the villages rather than in the seafront blocks, which is where most of this audience ends up looking once they have priced Sliema.
The People of Malta
A portrait and interview project in the Humans of New York format
2,572 posts. Photographs of Maltese people with their own words underneath, in English. Fishermen, nurses, shopkeepers, migrants, pensioners. Nothing else on this page tells you as much about how the country sees itself, which is the thing most likely to catch a newcomer out after the paperwork is done.
Heritage Malta
The national agency for Malta's cultural heritage
3,007 posts. Museums, temples, palaces and conservation work, with the sites' opening details and the annual membership offer. Practical as well as pretty: this is where you find out which sites are closed for works before you drive across the island in August.
Malta Type
An anonymous archive of Maltese vernacular lettering
542 posts. Hand-painted shop signs, bus destinations, band club facades and church notices, photographed as typography. A narrow subject done properly, and a quiet record of small Maltese businesses disappearing. Submissions come in by email, so much of it is other people's photographs.
BirdLife Malta
Malta's bird conservation NGO, founded 1962
6,832 posts. Migration counts, the reserves at Ghadira and Simar, and the annual argument over spring hunting and trapping. Worth following before you buy in the countryside: the autumn and spring hunting seasons are audible, legal on private land, and the single most common complaint from rural incomers who did not know about them.
Malta Uncovered
Edward Lansink, Dutch with Maltese roots, resident more than ten years and author of two Malta guidebooks. Discloses accommodation affiliate links and referral fees
511 posts. The Instagram side of the only independent Malta site with a named person behind it. Practical area coverage of Sliema, Mdina and Rabat, Gozo and the smaller towns. It is written for visitors rather than movers, which is a real limit, but the area detail transfers and the disclosure of how the site makes money is unusually clear.
Valletta Cultural Agency
The public agency that programmes culture in the capital
1,058 posts. What is actually on in Valletta: theatre, the Strada Stretta programme, concerts, Notte Bianca, the Biennale. The practical use is seasonal. It shows you that the capital has a winter life, which matters if you are choosing between Valletta and a summer resort town where half the restaurants shut in November.
Josef Awad
Josef Awad, a Maltese dentist who photographs the islands from the air
157 posts. Drone photography of Malta and Gozo, and the clearest way to understand the island's actual geography before you visit: how close everything is, how dense the harbour towns are, and how much of the coast is already built. Small following, high engagement, no commercial angle.
Nature Trust Malta
An environmental NGO running wildlife rescue and the Blue Flag beach scheme in Malta
741 posts. Beach water quality, turtle nesting, tree planting, wildlife rescue and the state of the countryside. A small account doing the unglamorous reporting on what development is costing the islands, which is the other half of the picture the tourism accounts show you.
Lovin Malta on TikTok
The same newsroom as the Instagram and YouTube entries above
3,764 videos and uploads recorded on 17 September 2026. The largest Maltese account on TikTok and the platform where its news reaches people fastest. Listed partly because TikTok is one of the few places we could prove with dates that a Maltese publisher is still posting daily.
Malta Daily on TikTok
The same English-language news account as the Instagram entry above
The daily practical feed in video form: weather, traffic, price changes, court results, what is closed. Still publishing as of mid-September 2026. Short, plain and in English, which makes it a fast way to acclimatise to the rhythm of the island before you arrive.
VisitMalta on TikTok
The Malta Tourism Authority
894 videos by 17 September 2026, running at roughly one a day. The official account in short form. Same caveat as everywhere else on this page: it is a marketing channel, and what it shows you is the season in which Malta is at its best.