This paper aims to explore the manner in which young Brazilians relate to and are impacted by advertising, taking into account the contemporary scenario of media abundance and interconnection and the proliferation of information. Its intention was to investigate this segment s perception regarding the different kinds of advertising and strategies, for example, merchandising actions, transmedia storytelling and multi-media advertising, among others. The approach used was an exploratory qualitative study, interviewing a group of 15 young college students on the proposed theme. The results indicated the need subjects in the study have to express an allegedly critical discourse, demonstrating a representative degree of discomfort with the fact of being able to be, in a way, manipulated by all kinds of advertising actions. In this sense, it was perceived that even in situations in which the youths agreed with the influence of the advertising, the power of TV or the strength of consumption influencing their lives, they prefer to express a certain level of distance from this reality, in some ways placing themselves as being immune to these processes. The results of this paper also encompass relevant aspects of themes like the stories inserted in advertising, media as an object of consumption, advertising in the digital world and the evolution and omnipresence of media.