The phrase "aiming to hook" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an intention to attract or engage someone's interest, often in marketing or storytelling contexts.
Example: "The advertisement was designed with a catchy slogan, aiming to hook potential customers right from the start."
Alternatives: "seeking to engage" or "intending to attract".
If they're aiming to hook the next generation of readers — that's you and me, my dope home slice — they're gonna have to think more about serving the consumer's needs.
In this case, music is the basis for these introductions, with the app aiming to hook people up and recommend places to go to based on their music tastes.
Aiming to hook up your party shots with an astonishingly chunky aide-memoire, the SipSup comes with an app that allows you to upload photos to the glass when you tap your phone on its logo.
PepsiCo set up shop in China in 1981, two years after rival Coke did, aiming to hook a nation of tea drinkers on cola.
Radio Doudou is not limited to nursery rhymes: it also aims to hook the parents.
The Dinner bears one of those strikingly interchangeable subtitles – How Far Would You Go to Protect the Ones You Love? – which aim to hook in the browsing book-buyer, but in fact it isn't about this at all.
Other games, such as "History of Biology," aim to hook students by giving them a tour through science's past.
Emma Mulqueeny heads up Rewired Reality, an online hackathon that aims to hook up brands, charities and individuals wanting new services with developers that can provide them.
The year-long initiative aims to hook developers up with design and marketing resources, as well as organize online office hours with people including David Cohen, the founder of Techstars, a Codementor backer.
This spring an ad campaign aimed to hook a lot of people like me: A new, controversial, "not to be missed" cable show would debut in June.
After his radical DJ-ing results in a disastrous party at the place of the girl (Rise) he aims to hook up with, he ends up castigated.
