This work analyzes the importance of local culture in the appropriation of global advertising campaigns and the way message is received within new world cultural references. The topic is discussed within the framework of a historical view of consumption and the analysis of advertising as a tool to affirm cultural values by means of campaigns for acquisition, ownership and use of goods. In order to carry out the work, we focused on authors, in the field of social sciences and communication, who saw the changes on patterns of consumption as important to the understanding of people and his/her social practices in contemporary culture. The global campaign Live the Coca-Cola side of life was used as a case study.