diff --git a/lms/templates/partials/analytics.html b/lms/templates/partials/analytics.html
index 10d97314..23ca883e 100644
--- a/lms/templates/partials/analytics.html
+++ b/lms/templates/partials/analytics.html
@@ -60,12 +60,15 @@
         }];
       </script>
     % endif
+    ## Add a timeout delay to GTM initialization to avoid breaking video module loading from YouTube
+    ## with Google Analytics v<4 with Measure Videos turneed on
+    ## see: https://discuss.openedx.org/t/first-video-on-lesson-dont-work/3836/3
     <!-- Google Tag Manager -->
-    <script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':
+    <script>const loadGTM = function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':
     new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
     j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src=
     'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);
-    })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','${customer_gtm_id | n, js_escaped_string}');</script>
+    };setTimeout(loadGTM.bind(null, window,document,'script','dataLayer','${customer_gtm_id | n, js_escaped_string}'), 1000);</script>
     <!-- End Google Tag Manager -->
   % endif