diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Feed.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Feed.tsx
index 59e1697..1fbadee 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Feed.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Feed.tsx
@@ -284,7 +284,15 @@ export default function Feed({
       <div className="p-4">
         <div className="flex items-center gap-2 flex-wrap pb-3 mb-1 border-b border-border">
           <button
-            onClick={() => setYtSearch(null)}
+            onClick={() => {
+              // The search just ingested new catalog videos, so the normal feed (which was
+              // disabled and still holds its pre-search cache) is stale. Drop those caches so
+              // it re-fetches fresh on return instead of showing the old (often empty) result.
+              setYtSearch(null);
+              qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: ["feed"] });
+              qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: ["feed-count"] });
+              qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: ["facets"] });
+            }}
             className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm text-muted hover:text-accent transition shrink-0"
           >
             <ArrowLeft className="w-4 h-4" />