diff --git a/apps/api-daemon/src/youtubePolling.ts b/apps/api-daemon/src/youtubePolling.ts
index 087ec7d..c59bc65 100644
--- a/apps/api-daemon/src/youtubePolling.ts
+++ b/apps/api-daemon/src/youtubePolling.ts
@@ -43,12 +43,29 @@ const BENIGN_POLL_MESSAGE = /is not currently live|will begin in/;
  *    solver) is included too — some channels return "The page needs to be
  *    reloaded" on the plain metadata fetch too, not just format resolution.
  */
-async function notifyIfEnabled(key: string, text: string): Promise<void> {
+/**
+ * A channel whose capture keeps crashing and restarting (see streamIngest's
+ * crash-loop notes) fires "started" + "poll failing" + "poll recovered" over
+ * and over within minutes — observed directly once several channels were
+ * live at once. One shared per-channel cooldown across all three message
+ * types means a flapping channel says its piece once, then goes quiet for a
+ * while instead of narrating every blip.
+ */
+const NOTIFY_COOLDOWN_MS = 10 * 60 * 1000;
+const lastNotifyAt = new Map<string, number>();
+
+async function notifyIfEnabled(key: string, channelId: string, text: string): Promise<void> {
+  const last = lastNotifyAt.get(channelId) ?? 0;
+  if (Date.now() - last < NOTIFY_COOLDOWN_MS) return;
+
   const setting = await prisma.appSetting.findUnique({ where: { key } });
-  if (setting?.value !== "false") await sendTelegramMessage(text);
+  if (setting?.value === "false") return;
+
+  lastNotifyAt.set(channelId, Date.now());
+  await sendTelegramMessage(text);
 }
 
-async function findLiveVideoId(channelId: string, channelName: string): Promise<string | null> {
+async function findLiveVideoId(channelId: string, channelName: string, channelDbId: string): Promise<string | null> {
   const liveUrl = `https://www.youtube.com/channel/${channelId}/live`;
 
   try {
@@ -70,7 +87,7 @@ async function findLiveVideoId(channelId: string, channelName: string): Promise<
     // this runs on every successful poll, most of which were never broken.
     if (lastPollErrors.has(channelId)) {
       lastPollErrors.delete(channelId);
-      await notifyIfEnabled("notify_poll_error", `✅ *${channelName}* canlı-tespiti tekrar çalışıyor.`);
+      await notifyIfEnabled("notify_poll_error", channelDbId, `✅ *${channelName}* canlı-tespiti tekrar çalışıyor.`);
     }
     const videoId = stdout.trim().split("\n")[0];
     return videoId || null;
@@ -86,6 +103,7 @@ async function findLiveVideoId(channelId: string, channelName: string): Promise<
       if (!wasAlreadyFailing) {
         await notifyIfEnabled(
           "notify_poll_error",
+          channelDbId,
           `⚠️ *${channelName}* canlı-tespiti başarısız oluyor:\n\`${message.slice(0, 300)}\``,
         );
       }
@@ -124,7 +142,7 @@ export async function startCaptureSession(
     segmentTimeSec: channel.segmentTimeSec ?? undefined,
   });
 
-  await notifyIfEnabled("notify_stream_start", `🔴 *${channel.name}* canlıya geçti, kayıt başlatılıyor.`);
+  await notifyIfEnabled("notify_stream_start", channel.id, `🔴 *${channel.name}* canlıya geçti, kayıt başlatılıyor.`);
   console.log(`[youtube-polling] started session ${session.id} for channel ${channel.name}`);
   return { started: true };
 }
@@ -139,7 +157,7 @@ export async function checkChannel(channel: {
   liveVideoId: string | null;
   error: PollError | null;
 }> {
-  const liveVideoId = await findLiveVideoId(channel.channelId, channel.name);
+  const liveVideoId = await findLiveVideoId(channel.channelId, channel.name, channel.id);
   await prisma.channel.update({
     where: { id: channel.id },
     data: { lastCheckedAt: new Date() },