Vertically focused contextual advertising solutions provider IndustryBrains has announced a new agreement with e-business and technology news publisher ECT News Network and said it has renewed its relationship with investment advisory service The Motley Fool. IndustryBrains is providing its solutions on six of ECT News Network's IT news and analysis online publications.

Those publications are E-Commerce Times, TechNewsWorld, LinuxInsider, CRM Buyer, MacNewsWorld, and ECTNews.com.

Other online publishers in the IndustryBrains IT vertical include Ziff Davis, IDG and Tech Web; its Business & Finance vertical includes Bankrate, Forbes.com, Investors.com and BusinessWeek Online.