diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 3d88d6dac..2e0a82b27 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@ install:
     - pip install --use-mirrors -r .travis/requirements-$BUILDENV.txt
 script:
     - trial scrapy scrapyd
+notifications:
+    - irc:
+        - "irc.freenode.org#scrapy"