Why ‘The Amazing Digital Circus’ Episode 5 Won’t Be On Netflix For A While…

Picture: GLITCH STUDIO

Netflix is due to receive all nine planned episodes of The Amazing Digital Circus. The streamer currently streams episodes 1 to 4, but when will episode 5 be released? We just got an update, although we still don’t have an exact release date. 

In case you didn’t know, Netflix has been the streaming home for The Amazing Digital Circus alongside YouTube since last year. As you may remember, we exclusively revealed that Netflix would be a new additional streaming home for the YouTube show in a licensing deal struck late last year. It’s one of the many YouTube shows and/or personalities that have made the jump from YouTube to Netflix, a trend that’s growing at a rapid pace. Following the announcement, the team behind the show said, “We’re still independently funding everything, we still get full control of the show, and episodes will continue to ALWAYS come out on YouTube first.”

Since being added to Netflix, the show has been in the global top 10s for two weeks, picking up 9.3 million hours watched (equivalent to 7 million views) and appearing in 35 countries’ charts. The Netflix Engagement Report for the latter half of 2024 says the show was the 124th most watched TV series with 11.10 million views.

Unlike traditional animated series, The Amazing Digital Circus doesn’t release weekly, in full seasons, or batches. Instead, the series releases each episode as and when it’s ready. To our knowledge, it’s one of the few shows that have ever been released like this on Netflix. 

Netflix added episodes 1 to 3 on October 4th (with the third releasing on that day on YouTube), and episode 4, titled Fast Food Masquerade, was added a couple of months later, on December 13th, 2025.

Until now, new episodes were expected sometime in the Spring (some predicted somewhere between April and June), although the team behind the show has been quiet until recently. 

In a recent social post on X, the team behind the show shared an update with the fifth episode in which it said:

“Hey y’all,

Thank you for patiently waiting for more Digital Circus! We’re working hard on episode 5 as we write this and are so excited to show you guys. But as we’re just one animation studio working on multiple shows, it will still be some time before the next episode is ready.

HOWEVER, we are alllllllmost ready to release the pilot of our new show; The Gaslight District – which you’re going to start hearing more about very, very soon. We can’t wait to release this. This show is like nothing we’ve EVER seen before and every inch of it was made with the love and passion of all our artists!!
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Stay tuned! -Glitch Team”

Reactions to the post were all pretty positive, with many understanding the unique situation the team behind the show are in. Glitch is ultimately a much smaller indie studio and as a result, doesn’t have the resources to pump out the show at a rapid pace. The new show mentioned, The Gaslight District, is scheduled to release on YouTube (Netflix does not currently have a vested interest in this one yet) on April 18th, 2025. 

We’ll keep you posted as we learn more about when the next episode of The Amazing Digital Circus will arrive on both Netflix and YouTube.